The Path of Pen or Sword?
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It is much easier to recruit and train soldiers than media experts. Mung Aung gets no salary, but he stays because he believes in a better future for the Kachin people.
The UN cannot directly aid the Kachin people in their struggle. No superpower has directly taken up their cause or offered direct support.
The media is the Kachin people’s best hope for a peaceful solution to their dream of an antonymous homeland.
The Kachin are trying to compete on the frontlines of communication by calling on the international media for attention. But they can't do it alone, and there’s the real possibility that if no one hears their message and they are ignored by the world's governments and media, they could return to the sword.
Ryan Libre spent three weeks in Kachin State supported by a grant from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
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