Jingphaw (KACHIN)

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2005 Movie of Kachin Ice Mountain
The film has been shot at the isolated snow-capped mountain in Putao (Northern part of Myanmar - India Borderline), and the creation of this movie involves adventurous hiking and mountaineering.

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Tribal peoples occupying parts of northeastern Myanmar (Burma) and contiguous areas of India (Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland) and China (Yunnan). The greatest number of Kachin live in Myanmar (roughly 590,000), but some 120,000 live in China and a few thousand in India. Numbering about 712,000 in the late 20th century, they speak a variety of languages of the Tibeto-Burman group and are thereby distinguished as Jinghpaw, or Jingpo The majority of Kachin are Jinghpaw speakers, and Jinghpaw is one of the officially recognized minority languages of China, 90% of kachin races are Christian..... .Encyclopaedia Britannica
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The British gradually imposed the Pax Britannica on the hills, between 1885 and 1935, Kachin are well known in the West for their heroic resistance to the Japanese invasion during the second World War, Christian missionaries have been particularly important in introducing Western education, and have made many conversions around Myitkyina andBhamo,  Since 1947, when the Kachin elite  welcomed the Union of Burma, direct Burmese and Buddhist influence has increased in the  administration due to majority of Kachin are Christian, Since the Burmese Army put down a Kachin rebellion in 1960.  World Languages