"Interviews in the Kachin State, Northern Burma". "The eleven interviews in this report were conducted in a large village in the Kachin State (northern Burma) just across a river boundary from China. The village has been rapidly expanding in population since the 1980s, with a constant influx of internal refugees who flee here to avoid a series of campaigns by Burmese government troops...Some of the interviewees could see nothing but darkness in the future; others expressed a remarkably buoyant optimism....While frustrated by isolation and poverty, the people there have a great faith in themselves and each other, and seem to feel that whatever work they are doing, it will be productive in the end. They are exraordinarily willing to take political risks..."