Chase Episode 3: The Last Gun Maker of Longding

The third episode of Chase takes you to a beautiful, remote part of Arunachal Pradesh to meet a tribe known for gun-making.

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Far away from the mainstream, approximately 30 km from Burma, tucked away in the pristine hills of Arunachal Pradesh’s Longding district, live the Wancho, a tribal people with Naga origins. Here, opium sprouts out of the fertile earth and in the hands of the people are guns and gunpowder.

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