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by Narciso Contreras.
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the ongoing civil war in Kachin State, northern Burma.
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| Je Gau Pa IDP camp, located at the high mountains of northeastern Kachin State, is one of the most remote temporary shelters settled under tough and poor conditions. The camp gives shelter to two thousand displaced persons from the war-torn villages close to Maiya Jang city. Reference number 0001 |
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| Kachin refugees carry firewood collected foreground to Je Gau Pa IDP camp located at the high mountains of northeastern Kachin State. The camp gives shelter to two thousand displaced persons from the war-torn villages close to Maiya Jang city. Reference number 0002 |
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| Kachin refugee women walk around with their recently born babies at the Je Gau Pa IDP camp, located at the high mountains of northeastern Kachin State. This camp is one of the most remote temporary shelters settled under tough and poor conditions. The camp gives shelter to two thousand displaced persons from the war-torn villages close to Maiya Jang city. Reference number 0003 
A Kachin refugee woman walks at the Je Gau Pa IDP camp, located at the high mountains of northeastern Kachin State. This camp is one of the most remote temporary shelters settled under tough and poor conditions. The camp gives shelter to two thousand displaced persona from the war-torn villages close to Maiya Jang city.
Reference number 0004
 A Kachin refugee child stands out of a tent as he waits for the rice ration given by the WaPaNa NGO at Seng Mai Pa IDP camp, one of the multiple camps settled outskirts of Maiya Jang city. The camp gives shelter to two thousand displaced persons from the war-torn villages in Kachin State. Reference number 0005 |
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| A Kachin child refugee walks across tents settled to give shelter to the displaced persons in one of the largest IDP camps close to Laiza KIA stronghold city. Five thousand IDP's have been settled in this camp since the ceasefire was broken out by the Burmese army last June 2011. Reference number 0006 |
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| Burmese child soldiers (17 years old) cover their faces to avoid be recognized as they keep under custody by the KIA intelligence inside a detention centre in the stronghold Laiza city. They were forced to become soldiers by the Burmese army, but they escaped from the army when got the chance. They are desertors now without any chance to go back home. Reference number 0007 |
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| KIA recruits during a resting time from their basic training program at one of the trainig camps outskirsts Laiza city, the headquarters of the Kachin Independence rebel Army. The KIA is enhancing its troops number since the ceasefire was broken out by the Burmese army last June 2011. Reference number 0008 |
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| A KIA soldier stands guard at the northwest front line of Laiza city, the headquarters of the Kachin independence rebel Army. Fierce clashes have taken place since the ceasefire was broken out by the Burmese army last June 2011. Reference number 0009 |
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| A KIA soldier stands guard as he monitors by radio the Burmese army position at one of the outpost some kilometers from the Kachin rebel stronhold Laiza city, the headquarters of the Kachin independence Army. Fierce clashes have taken place since the ceasefire was broke by the Burmese army last June 2011. Reference number 0010 |
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| Female KIA soldiers belong to the 3rd Brigade hold their weapons as they stand guard at the check point down the hill of the KIA headquarters in Laiza city. Since the begining of the Kachin uprising for its sovereignty women always fought by side the rebel soldiers, but officially, the female KIA was founded in 2007, since then, up to 1500 women have joint to the rebel army. Reference number 0011 |
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| KIA female recruit laughs as she plays with her friends during a resting time from their basic military training program at one of the trainig camps outskirsts Laiza city, the headquarters of the Kachin Independence rebel Army. Since the begining of the Kachin uprising for its sovereignty women always fought by side the rebel soldiers, but officially, the female KIA was founded in 2007, since then, up to 1500 women have joint to the rebel army. The KIA is enhancing its troops number since the ceasefire was broken out by the Burmese army last June 2011. Reference number 0012 |
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| Female KIA soldier stands guard at the check point down the hill of the KIA headquarters in Laiza city. Since the begining of the Kachin uprising for its sovereignty women always fought by side the rebel soldiers, but officially, the female KIA was founded in 2007, since then, up to 1500 women have joint to the rebel army. Reference number 0013 |
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| A guerrilla soldier of special Battalion from the headquarters of the Karen rebel army KNLA, who has completely lost his leg by a landmine explosion when stepped on while was patroling in the jungle. During 2011, the ethnic rebel armies of the KNLA, DKBA and ABSDF in the Karen state were working together to fight the Burmese government troops, simultaneously this allowed them to funding an ethnic alliance along Burma to claim a new federation rule in the country. Reference number 0014
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Kachin refugee children play at Je Gau Pa IDP camp, located at the high mountains of northeastern Kachin State. This camp is one of the most remote temporary shelters settled under tough and poor conditions. The camp gives shelter to two thousand displaced persons from the war-torn villages close to Maiya Jang city.
Reference number 0017
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| Burmese migrants queue in a field cover by fog as they wait for a garbage collector truck at the rubbish dump, outskirts of Mae Sot boder town. Due the conflict in Burma, over 5 million people had left the country in the past, and most of them have taken shelter in the neighboring countries as migrants or as refugees. In Thailand the figure of those "Illegals" is the highest among asian countries, and the main gate they usually use to cross the border is the city of Mae Sot, the most imortant commercial cross point between the two countries, and better known as "The little Burma", due the largest burmese communities in Thailand. Reference number 0018 |
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| A Kachin refugee child plays in a hill among tents settled to give shelter to the displaced persons in one of the largest IDP camps close to Laiza KIA stronghold city. Five thousand IDP's have been settled in this camp since the ceasefire was broken out by the Burmese army last June 2011.
Reference number 0019
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| Karen refugee kid at the Nu Poh refugee camp. Reference number 0020 |
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A Kachin refugee woman hugs her sons inside an abandoned tobacco factory compound used as a temporary shelter in Maiya Jang city. The compound gives shelter to two thousand displaced persons from the war-torn villages close to.
Reference number 0021
A Kachin refugee mother embraces her baby at the Je Gau Pa IDP camp, located at the high mountains of northeastern Kachin State. This camp is one of the most remote temporary shelters settled under tough and poor conditions. The camp gives shelter to two thousand displaced persons from the war-torn villages close to Maiya Jang city.
Reference number 0022
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| A Burmese refugee mother holds in her hands her baby at the rubbish dump in Mae Sot border town, Thailand. Reference number 0023 |
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| A Burmese refugee mother feeds her baby as she collects food from the garbage at the rubbish dump in Mae Sot border town, Thailand. Reference number 0024 |
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| Burmese migrant workers have to hide at the fields outskirts Mae Sot to avoid to be catch by the police and send them back to Burma. Reference number 0025 |
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| Burmese refugee girls play in one of the ground fields in Nu Poh refugee camp as they smile to their other refugee friends. Thai/Burma border, northern Thailand. Reference number 0026 |
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| A Burmese migrant woman works at the field crops outskirts of Mae Sot border town. Thousands of illegal migrant workers currently live and work at the farm fields in Thailand, under the worst work conditions. Reference number 0027 |
Kachin family at a wood hut used as dormitory. The hut is part of a KIA outpost up to the high mountains of the Maija Yang front line.
Reference number 0028
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| Karen refugee children walk in a muddy road as they come back to home under the rain after had attended the school in the Nu Poh refugge camp, northern Thailand. Reference number 0029 |
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| Burmese children monks chat among them after have taken lunch in a Burmese monastery outskirts of Mae Sot border town, northern Thailand. Reference number 0030 |
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| A Burmese migrant child wears saffron robe as he is initiated into monastic life in a Buddhist initiation ceremony (Shin Pyu), where in young boys are accepted by in a monastery as novice, Buddhist monks. In Mae Sot township at the Thai/Burmese border exist 5 monasteries runned by Burmese monks, where the vast majority of migrants under adult age start to practice their religious life. Reference number 0031 |
For the first time Contreras printed photographs are available in a Limited Edition online.
Narciso Contreras, photojournalist, has covered the Burma ethnic conflict since November 2010. He has covered the Burmese civil war as an independent photojournalist with the end of showing the other perspective of the Burma issues than the ones usually promoted by the mainstream media.
20% of the revenue will go to support the displaced persons (IDP's) and refugees who have fled the civil war in Kachin State, northern Burma.
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The cost to keep alive each one of those whose fled from the conflict is $1 US dollar by day.
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