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New Video up of the Akha of Asia
Jan 9, 2012 Day 9 Akha of Asia Video Jan 2011
The Grey Man, Trafcord, Fake Rescues, Fake Orphans
Jan 9, 2012 So what IS fake? Fake rescues, fake orphans, fake everything. The Grey Man is getting blamed for rescuing kids that weren't in need or rescue, or so the story goes. Fake Rescue But what this may do is exhibit that so many orgs are making up their own stories for reasons to take away Akha children and fake their rescue to a mission orphanage. And that has been going on for 20-30 years. No one seems to notice. Trafcord, I think it can be said that they also have their own agenda. We found them very reluctant to move to the aid of boys who had been raped by a missionary in Chiangrai, and other boys who were being moved by the same missionary to Chiangmai to "make appointments". In the end they didn't do anything. But the boys got the police active when it was discovered this Mr. Woon had lots of baht. Let's hope that this case will show how the Akha are being taken by so many missions to fill their schools and projects for a buck while theyt are cut off from their culture. Additional Article by Andrew Drummond
New Website: The Akha Farm
Jan 4, 2012 The new website AkhaFarm.com is now up and running. Pics of progress on this Akha Farm in Falls City, Oregon.
If this site is important to you, Please Donate!
Dec. 2, 2011 If you value this site, if it has helped you in your research and study of the Akha situation, then please consider making a donation to help it carry on and help us continue to add information and documentation to this site.
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Come Visit the Akha Farm, Falls City, Oregon
Nov. 11, 2011 We are nearly a month into cleaning up the land at the Akha Farm in Falls City, Oregon. Metal, tires and berry vines keep getting towed out of the brush, clearing way for tomatoes and other edibles like chili peppers. We invite you to stop by and tell your Akha friends. Drop us an email for directions. The coffee is on.
Akha Army signs agreement with Myanmar Govt.
Oct 13, 2011 Burmese gov’t and Mong La group renew relations, sign agreements Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The Mong La group will be allowed to reopen its liaison offices following peace talks held on Saturday with a Union-level peace delegation led by Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) Secretary Aung Thaung. Since 2009, the government has demanded the transformation of Mong La forces into a Border Guard Force, but during the peace talks the matter was not discussed, said Mong La delegates. “Both sides held discussions on cooperation in reopening of liaison offices, reassignment of staff for ensuring better education, health, agriculture and transport in Special Region (4) and the elimination of illegal narcotic drugs, and signed agreements,” the state-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported on Tuesday. The peace talks were held in Shan State Special Region (4). According to the newspaper, the meeting at the headquarters of the Triangle Regional Military Command in Kengtung was attended by a Mong La delegation led by Vice Chairman San Pae, with 10 delegates on each side. The government delegation included the chairman of the National Race Affairs and Internal Peace-making Committee, Thein Zaw; the Shan State Chief Minister Sai Aung Myat; Shan State Security and Border Affairs Minister Colonel Aung Thu; and the Shat State Advocate General Maung Maung, according to the Sino-Burmese observer Aung Kyaw Zaw, who is close to the Mong La group. Prior to the peace talks, government delegates including Aung Thaung and Thein Zaw and the Mong La group’s delegates held an initial meeting in Kengtung, in which issues including a cease-fire and regional development were discussed. The government specified that the initial meeting was a regional level meeting. During a 10-year cease-fire period, which was broken in 2009, there were more than 100 government civil servants including agricultural workers, doctors and teachers in the Mong La headquarters. The cease-fire was broken because of the former junta’s order to transform the Mong La group into a Border Guard Force, and the junta ordered civil servants to leave the area. The National Democratic Alliance Army-Eastern Shan State, aka Mong La group, comprises Shan, Palaung and Akha people. It has an estimated 3,000 soldiers and its area has been specified as Special Region 4. The Mong La group is active in Kengtung District, Mong Yawng, Mong Hpayak Township, and on a section of the Mekong River near Burma’s border with China and Laos. In accordance with another agreement, Special Region 4 area will remain restricted and Mong La troops will be required to inform authorities in advance if they want to cross into other areas. The state-run newspaper reported on Tuesday that the Mong La group said that it would never secede from the Union and oppose the State. The Burmese government is also engaged in peace talks with the United Wa State Army (UWSA). Recently, a government delegation led by Aung Thaung and Thein Zaw met with the UWSA on two occasions. The 2008 Constitution says that the Union Defence Services is the sole defence force in the country. The former junta’s efforts to force ethnic armed groups to transform themselves into a Border Guard Force or people’s militia to be operated under the Defense Services was rejected by most ethnic armed groups. Since previous cease-fires with ethnic armed groups were broken, the government has fought against the Kachin Independence Organization, the Shan State Army-North and the Democratic Karen Buddhist Association.
Unicef Pushes Tetanus Toxoid Vaccine in Laos
Oct 1, 2011 Unfortunately this program is well advanced. Big Pharma is everywhere you look as far as you look.
Unicef Tetanus Toxoid Program in Laos
Sept 30, 2011By Henri Roux The Akha and Phu Noi Minorities of Laos in the 1920s presents a wealth of data and a number of unique period photographs, collected by a French military administrator, of the area around Phongsaly, then the Fifth Military Territory in northern Laos. It is fair to say that this book presents a rare view of the original condition of these tribal populations as the observations date from the early 1920s when very few Europeans had been in this area. The text systematically reviews all that there was to know about these people: origins, physical characteristics, dwellings, customs and sorcery, ceremonies and feasts, ownership and economics, social relations, legends, even the dream world and the significance of omens are discussed. The measurement, time and writing systems and a number of typical texts have also been included. Together with rare period photographs not found elsewhere this book also provides an ethnographic treasure trove for people interested in the authentic textiles and material cultures of these two groups.
Introduction ‘The notes that follow have been written when I commanded the 5th Territoire Militaire, in Phongsaly, in the north of Laos, on the border with Yunnan. The information has in general been collected during my rounds, during nights in camp. The two secretary-interpreters of the territory: Tsan-Man Chuy for things concerning the Akhas, and Phouy for what relates to the Phu Nois, have been for me valuable collaborators. It is only fair to give them the praise they deserve for their patience and their devotion. The transcription I followed is that of quoc-ngu with the following additions: p’ = aspired p (ph = f), sh = lingual s.’ This was one of just a few footnotes, and translators the world over love such people—a military man he was too as we gain the impression that no detail was too unimportant to be recorded in order to secure the final goal: to know these people and to know them well. One wonders whether one should add: ‘just in case …’ as an afterthought, because Roux served ‘on the border with Yunnan’. Besides, the transcription he proposed has not been followed consistently. Nothing would come of radical thoughts of revolt, such as the Meos had staged, and modernization alone would do the job for a number of decades, at least until the 1960s, of changing—or maybe corrupting—these people. Now, at least the Akhas enjoy worldwide attention as a tourist attraction. I believe that would have filled the major with sadness, and so would quite a number of websites proclaiming their objective of attempting to help the Akhas retain their cultural identity. Symptomatic of the nature of the interest are the various spellings of the names of the Akhas and Phu Nois that are found all over the internet’s information tsunami. For the sake of readability and in order that place names can be found, not only on French maps (which often have different spellings from the texts in which they are incorporated), but also in the field, as little ‘modernization’ as possible is undertaken by translators. But we often have to adopt, or do away with, the unavoidable and oh-so-French ‘ou’. But, we were speaking about ‘mœurs et coutumes’, that almost untranslatable and largely tautological phrase that every dictionary of the last 200 years refuses to include as an idiomatic expression. But we know what it means, and quietly hope that this little volume will help to restore them in their original form among the Akhas and the Phu Nois. The little volume you have in your hand first appeared in 1924. With some delay for the work to be polished and published we can assume that the information contained in it dates from the first year or so of the 1920s. The author refers to 1921 for some information and also to his long stay of some eight years in the colony. Therefore, this book stands—and stands tall—as a baseline, because nothing much had been achieved in spreading French culture in Laos in the thirty or so years it had been under the benevolent protectorate of France. Administration, if left alone 10,000 kilometers from Paris, does not do much damage and rarely overshadows anything. It just costs money and hence causes taxation—and even on this the major reported a certain amount, albeit not in extenso. Before that period, however, there must have been other influences, but they must have been instead of Chinese or perhaps other montagnard nature. A fascinating thought indeed. One just wonders whether there were only the little coins that were adopted as ‘jewelry’ by various tribes—even if its silver content kept diminishing? Trade in this area, with China and perhaps the Red River areas all the way to the Vietnamese coast, must have had a spin-off even in the make up and fashion of the women of these tribes. The work of Roux shows that at least they had made a distinction between dress, ceremonial dress and everyday working clothes to wear when toiling on mountain paths and in rais. Only women wear such clothes. Even in near-military reports one can read between the lines … We have omitted only some vocabularies from the original work, as they are very limited and surely have been made obsolete by dictionaries published since the 1920s. We have preserved some texts as their contents may have a documentary value, despite all the difficulties of transcribing phonetically sounds western ears believe they have discerned. Because of poor rendering and the simplification of pronunciation and transcription, Phu Nois or Akhas aspiring to a career in sorcery are advised to look elsewhere. Although the photographs included here have great documentary value their technical quality, as reprinted on the plates added to the original publication in the Bulletin, is less than perfect. Little figures scattered around in different paragraphs are almost too poor to reprint but one never knows, there might be experts who are able to interpret details that escape the attention of a run-of-the-mill translator. Besides, White Lotus Press has previously published several volumes containing outstanding photographs of minorities of the Lao mountains and Yunnan border areas, notably, the Pavie Mission Reports, Maurice Abadie’s Minorities of the Sino-Vietnamese Borderland, Charles Robequain’s Photographic Impressions of French Indochina, Albert Sarraut’s Indochina and Jean Renaud’s Laos in the 1920s. The Gods, Monks and Mountains of Laos. The latter volume gives a good general idea of the attitude of French colonialists and the colonial administration towards peoples that they pejoratively grouped under the name Kha, mostly in Laos and Siam, or Moï, in Vietnam. Jean Renaud being a political man, that book is in a sense complementary to the ‘dry’ reporting of Henri Roux, who clearly loved ‘his people’. The page facing the title page of this book lists a number of related works published by White Lotus Press, both new texts and the first English translations of others, for those deeply interested in minorities in Laos. While they might not all have the level of detail of the present volume, they include hearsay field anecdotes and, perhaps embellished, adventure stories. Henri Roux, a military man toiling on his field desk to write one of his two great works, also wrote about a number of colorful events and anecdotes, but they are all true. Dr. Walter E. J. Tips This book can be purchased from White Lotus books in Bangkok and associated Thai bookstores.
400 Akha Prison Letters Mailed
Sept 30, 2011 Thanks to two donors I was able to just now mail out 400 more Akha prison letters. Our next batch will go smoother. We will mail at least twice a year, plus all the hand written letters back to prisoners who write to us. Right now we need about $135 in postage for remaining letters. We would also like to mail out Akha books, so if you are interested in helping on that kind of a project please let us know. The kids have been helpful in doing postage, stamping envelopes, folding letters and sealing letters.
UN Letter of Allegation
Aug 8, 2011 Here is an update of the situation on the "Letter of Allegation" which was filed against Thailand by Special Rapporteur Rudolfo Stavenhagen in 2007. In 2009 the basic contents of the letter became public. 2008 Thai Govt Response to Letter of Allegation 2011 Our Reply to Thai Govt. Rebuttal
July Donations to this Project
July 10, 2011 Well, actually I could talk about quite a few months and donations to this project and covering the cost of this website. I know there are a lot of people out there who get a lot of use from this site. A lot of information gathered in one place. But the site needs improvement, that means I need to do more research, more writing, more consolidations, get more pages up that are still sitting on the hard drive from when I had to do the emergency rebuild in Laos 2006 (due to constant hacking), and there are hundreds of photos that need to get placed on pages of this site too. It all takes time, to say nothing of the travel related to getting new information for the site. So if you look over to the right, for the month of July (and quite a few months before it) the dontations are at zero. Occasionally I get someone looking to place an add and that brings in a bit.
Stats for the last seven days off my web log are like this. The site doesn't do much sleeping. The more regularly you donate, the more effort I can put into keeping the site up, and collecting good documentation. $5, $1, there is no amount too small.
Akha Music Video, Now That's Funny
July 10, 2011 Akha Music Video - Comedy I am Akha Website
Travels in Yunnan
July 8, 2011
A month in Kunming, Yunnan, China. Its always great to be back among the Akha and this trip was no exception. I split my time between Kunming and Jing Hong doing research and just getting to know more Akha people. I got out to some Akha villages, visited with a Gneeh Pah friend of mine, and picked up some needed Akha tools from one of the villagers. The Akha have life a bit more stable in China than they do in Thailand. But I always miss my Akha friends in Thailand where I lived so many years. Here the rice, bananas and sugar cane are in full swing to name a few major crops that the Akha work with besides tea of course. I got to stop by one Akha man's tea shop where tea sold for anywhere from $3 for a dried flat disc of tea or $200 for the same size from a different flavored tea. Some of the tea trees are very old, and the man told me that the tea with the more mild flavor was from tea trees in high elevations. He had a large piece of wood before him, a cross cut of a good sized tree, and it was hollowed out a bit and had a drain. He heated water, rinsed small cups, and served us cup after cup of different kinds of tea. Then he gave me a piece of bamboo that had moist tea packed down in it and then dried. I'll take it home and see how it tastes. At a Chinese tool shop near one Akha village I looked for hand made implements that I could use, picked out a couple weeding tools, look like small hoe's. Back in Jing Hong I met with more friends and went over what some of the current concerns the Akha face. Many of the Akha young people live in Jing Hong working but many also remain in the villages. Jing Hong is a tropical town on the Mekong river. Warmer and more humid than Kunming and growing very rapidly. Hotels and condos and villas are springing up everywhere. The locals like the money flowing into the area, but maybe they will have second thoughts when the streets are as congested as they are in Kunming. I found one of those shops that had an orange phone on the counter and called Thailand and Burma to talk to many other Akha friends I work with, find out how people are, what people are doing and also to have this or that Akha person contact me by email, something unheard of in years gone by. But I still need to make a trip to Burma and work on some projects there. Some things you just can't do over the phone efficiently enough. I also have some Ahka tapes I need transcribed by a friend there. There are many projects related to the Akha and the Hani in both Kunming and Jing Hong and so I was able to get around and meet many people and find out what they were doing. In Jing Hong the Akha are called Aini. But in Kuming most people lump them together as Hani. For the most part if you can speak Akha or Aini, you won't be able to communicate with someone who speaks Hani unless they know both languages. There are other differences too. The substitute or local words that the Akha use in China are different than the ones they use in Laos, Myanmar or Thailand. The more I listen to Chinese the more my ear figures out the language and it begins to sound more harmonious. I learn a few words but mostly there are sounds and ways that people express themselves that begin to sound familiar. Learning more and more of the language can not be far off. And if you can speak Chinese, well you will be able to talk to someone just about anywhere in the world. I find the Chinese polite, friendly, welcoming, helpful. Today I went to the south end of Kunming to find the "Three Leaves Hotel". That is where I stayed when I first came to Kunming in 1991. It was all concrete then, no paint, and was the tallest building in the area. The plumbing was run down, the rooms were pretty cold as the buildings here are not heated, and the beds had big thick quilts. Well, I walked all over town to find the hotel, and finally found it. Now its painted white, looks like its seen a small amount of remodel, and is surrounded by many much taller buildings now. When I was there before most of the surrounding buildings were just a few stories, and the streets were all small shops. Now you can still find clusters of small shops on side streets but they are mostly all gone, replaced by big buildings, malls, plazas and instead of bicycles the streets are filled with many many cars. The ethnic women who changed money were still clustered around the hotel, just like twenty years ago. I got a meal of dumplings and then figured I would head back downtown. I stopped for a coffee there and watched the people go by. The downtown area has a couple of streets that are blocked off to cars, and the cars and buses actually go under the road for this section of town. Its great to be done with cars. People are moving everywhere, a never ending crowd. I sat on a bench and just watched for a good hour as people enjoyed the mild weather. Then I tried to get a taxi, but it was five pm now and all of China poured into the streets and there wasn't an empty taxi to be found. I walked and waited, and it took me two hours to finally get an empty taxi. Actually it isn't that there weren't any, just about every twenty feet there are a couple other people trying to flag down the same rare empty taxi also. I think the taxis could double in number at closing time and there still wouldn't be enough. Finally a taxi stopped to drop off some people and I jumped in the front seat, glad for a ride.
New Akha Spindles in Stock
July 7, 2011
We have more Akha spindles in stock. If you would like one write an email and I will tell you how to order one. Akha Text Project
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Akha Prison Letters Project
Thai Prisons are a cruel life for the Akha people. The Thai government imposes many harsh conditions on the Akha people, and takes their land. Then when the Akha make any infraction of the law they are sent off to prison for many years. There are many old Akha in prison, both women and men, who were imprisoned for such infractions years ago. The Akha Prison Letters Project: Sending mail to the Akha prisoners of Thailand.
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Drug War Overview Jan. 2006 The Drug War Creates Mass Death of the Akha From Disease and Starvation. Death Rate As High as 20% in Some Villages. Forced Relocations, No Land, No Food, No Jobs. Data Supported by Independent International Reports. The Drug War has a violent effect on Akha communities that goes beyond just police prosecution of would be offenders. Military and police violence against the Akha has been a standard event in Thailand. Extra-judicial killings and killings for no reason are what the Akha expect. Use Google to Search This Site. There Are Hundreds of Drug War Articles in News DRUG WAR DEATH PICS - Killings Paid For With YOUR Tax Dollars Death Pics with Many Captions
Creates Mass Death of the Akha From Disease and Starvation. Death Rate As High as 20% in Some Villages. Forced Relocations, No Land, No Food, No Jobs. Data Supported by Independent International Reports. has a violent effect on Akha communities that goes beyond just police prosecution of would be offenders. Military and police violence against the Akha has been a standard event in Thailand. Extra-judicial killings and killings for no reason are what the Akha expect.
Harm Reduction: Harm reduction and drug rehabilitation efforts are more effective and have lower social costs than the drug war. The Queen's Royal Project Seizes the Land of Hooh Yoh Village Royal Project Should Give Back the Land at Hooh Yoh
Project Tries to justify taking the land
Theft of Akha Land Update - Volunteers Harrassed by Thai Army Tourists in one village were harrassed because a foreign tourist had gone and taken a picture of the Project at Hooh Yoh. The Thai Army said "no one can take pictures of this project" The Army proceeded to go through the inside of the house where tourists were staying, took their photos and checked their passports. Your Support URGENTLY Needed to Back Up Hooh Yoh Akha Contact your nearest Thai Embassy. Request that these details be investigated. Information and Pictures High Resolution Pics Of Hooh Yoh! Activist Contact Data for the Queen In 2003 the Project took away all the land of Hooh Yoh Akha, some 4500 acres (8500 Rai) of land. 1500 Akha villagers are displaced and they are made to work at half minimum wage on the land that belonged to them. We need volunteers to continue to protest to the Thai Government and Embassies about the seizure of this land. In addition to this seizure of Hooh Yoh land, the project has gone on to seize tea lands of Pai a Prai Akha village, in the same district, Ampur Mae Fah Luang, Chiangrai Province. The Thai government terrorizes the Akha in order to keep them suppressed. The occasional brutal murder works to this end. Though there are many Akha who would gladly have their photos on this website, or run a column here, they can not speak out in such a public way if they want to stay alive. Your protest supports and strengthens the Akha people. Activism For Helping the Akha People Akha Human Rights What You Can Do To Help Areas of Focus:
1. Missionary removal of Akha children and coerced conversion. 2. Thai seizure of rice lands, forced relocations, extra-judicial executions 3. The US Supported Drug War in Thailand which rubber stamps profiling and violence against the Akha and other ethnic groups. 4. Missing Akha Refugees in the US, Sacramento area. Your volunteer time and energy is needed to protect the Akha people.
Approximately 70,000 Akha reside in Thailand. 320 or more villages. The Akha have the least rights in Thailand of any country, suffer the greatest level of abuse and imprisonment. Their culture is destroyed by US missionaries.
Protect the Akha Peace and Justice Center
If any of the Thai Cosul or Embassy addresses bounce then go to another embassy or look also on this page: Full List of Thai Government Sites Contact Your MP and Embassy HERE! MP List Post to any indymedia site and for your local area. Indy Media
Suggestions for Action
Sign Akha Petition #1 (500 plus signators) 1. Get an article published, air a radio interview, get a spot on TV. 2. Write letters to Thai Embassies. 3. Post our link on your website 4. Do volunteer work, research. 5. Plan a trip to do photography and video documentation. 6. Write protest letters to missionary groups. 7. Do a fundraising project. 8. Host a presentation in your area. 9. Pay for literature to be printed. 10. Hand out literature at your library, university and church. 11. Post to any Indymedia site and for your local area. Indy Media
Take Downs OMF pulls down web pages that describe the Akha in inaccurate ways. Jim Morris is an OMF CEO missionary in residence at Corbin College, Salem, Oregon. We have questions about the attitudes which are conveyed to the young people. Rotary Intl. pulls web pages and funding from CGT mission which removes Akha children. Other chapters of Rotary continued to support CGT. Lake Oswego Chapter.
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The Choice
After considering the facts as a human rights activist, when it comes to choosing between following the teachings of christianity or following Jesus Christ, I have decided to follow Jesus Christ. Matthew McDaniel
Full Redemption Jesus Christ offers full redemption, in all spheres of human life, justice, land, food and the rights to one's own children. We should not ignore or overlook any aspect of human existence and fail to mention it in the redemption of the human condition. This includes the Akha and their need for security and the protection of rights. It does no good to claim that redemption only applies to the life here after, while ignoring the incredible suffering inflicted on these people. Individuals who claim that the great difficulties that the Akha face helps convert them, have distorted and deformed the gospel.
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