Photo exhibition of the Kachin Independence Army at the FCCT

Exhibition launch: 7pm Fri, April 2, 2010 at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand

40 panel mounted prints

The KIO/KIA (Kachin Independence Organization) are on the forefront of many major issues in Myanmar this year: the Boarder Guard Force issue, negotiating state rights, contesting the new constitution, the Myitsone Dam and the 2010 elections. The KIO/KIA is not just fighting against the military government, they are proactive on many fronts from health care and education to infrastructure and agriculture.

They run a nearly complete parallel government ready to take power if given state rights
or independence. This exhibition will give you a closer look at who they are and what they do.

Ryan Libre has spent three months with The Kachin Independence Organization, partly financed by a grant from the Pulitzer Center onCrisis Reporting. This show will also be exhibited at the Nikon
Salons in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan.

Here is the location, http://www.fccthai.com/location.html its right at the Chitlom BTS. it will be up the whole month of April