A former spokesperson of Christian anti-drug movement Pat Jasan, Nhkum Tang Gun, now directs the youth department of the Kachin National Consultative Assembly, also known as Wa Ma Ra. He spoke to Frontier about Pat Jasan, whose vigilante methods are controversial but continue to enjoy local backing due to the havoc drugs have wreaked on Kachin communities.
Poverty and lack of opportunities in a Kachin IDP camp are driving vulnerable girls into forced marriages with Chinese men, with brokers exploiting families desperate enough to sell their daughters to be trafficked across the border.
BY Frontier
