Land of Jade by Bertil Lintner

Author:Bertil Lintner [Lintner, Bertil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Burma, Asia, History
ISBN: 9789745241855
Publisher: Orchid Press
Published: 2014-05-28T00:00:00+00:00

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PA JAU

After nearly six months on the move across northern Burma with only a few halts along the way, arrival at Pa Jau meant we could now enjoy the luxury of settling down. For once, we knew we would be staying for months rather than days or weeks.

Pa Jau was spread out on more than ten hillocks surrounding a central market which straggled along the stream that ran through the valley. The settlement boasted several solid wooden buildings with tiled roofs. On one knoll was a church which on weekdays served as a kindergarten; on another was a telephone exchange. Offices were scattered throughout the settlement; there was a large school and, in the valley near the market, a video hall.

On the highest hillock stood a large wooden building, the headquarters of the rebels’ civil administration in Kachin State. Beside it fluttered a Kachin flag, an upper red field and a lower green one with crossed Kachin dahs superimposed in white. In the evening between 8 and 10 pm a petrol-powered generator provided the entire camp with electricity. From a distance, Pa Jau, at an altitude of almost 2,000 metres, looked almost like a resort in the Swiss Alps, and all the more so when smoke drifted from the chimneys of the wooden cabins.

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