CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- After a fierce World War II battle against Japanese forces in the jungles of northern Myanmar, a dubious American commander questioned a Kachin guerilla fighter about an unusually high and exact body count. Emptying a bamboo tube on the general's desk, the guerrilla fighter suggested, "Count the ears and divide by two."
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