Namhkam
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Oct 9, 2026
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[upbeat music] Christians in Myanmar's Kachin State protest the junta and the Shan Nationalities Army occupying the Kachin Baptist and St Joseph's Catholic churches in Namhkam as military bases.
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The SNA, a Buddhist militia founded in 1989 and reactivated in 2016, allied with the junta after the 2021 coup.
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The junta let them expand brigades, collect taxes, and control Hkamti and Monyin against the Kachin Independence Army.
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Late 2024 advances into Namhkam displaced over 400 of the 500 Christian Kachin households.
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Barely 80 households remain, blockaded, surviving on wild roots, plants, fish, and frogs.
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Father Donald Kong Lum built the old St Joseph's in 1983.