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Stealing Akha Children The Formula

The missionaries follow a formula in north Thailand for exploiting the Akha children to make money and easy lives. We call them SUPER PIMPS. They claim they are saving the children from prostitution, but sexual abuse in the unmonitored homes is rife.


Missions start with nothing, pay for an Akha or other hill tribe person to arrange for them to enter into the Akha community. The Akha usually does this thinking there is financial reward in it, which there is.

Missions get funding for a piece of land.

They build either a preliminary house or building of some kind.

At the earliest possible moment they begin arranging to bring Akha children to this new location under the guise of educating them, giving them a better life. Life in an abused Akha village might not be so good. Human rights and money make for a lot of security. But rather than fight for these people to be treated like humans or helping them in their villages at much less cost, the missions exploit the situation as reason to remove the children, and of course, in the end build themselves a very comfortable life in Chiangrai etc.

In the end the Akha are removed from their villages, their culture and family, they are told their culture is evil, and many lies are bandied about. This helps the missionaries feel justified for their terrible actions. Removal of the children is against international law, and ends up in alienation of these children from their society, and thus increased likelyhood that they will fall prey to ongoing exploitation, which in fact many of them do. Beyond the mental and sexual exploitation at the mission.

The children are ;;a money pump. Two or three years at the mission, they leave with nothing, but their presence has attracted thousands of donor dollars that the likes of Vern McCully, and many other missionaries have benefited immensely by.

Bottom line, the missionaries get fat, the Akha get nothing.

The Akha say that the missionaries build a rice terrace on the backs of the Akha that never goes dry. A rice terrace that never goes dry will give you three rice crops in a season, not just one.

The missionaries are too evil to admit how they are exploiting children for financial gain, children who have no rights, children who live in villages where the forestry department, army and police take away all they have.

This is no problem for the missionaries. Culture is not important they say. Be they Akha, Chinese or American they are white racists without exception.

You only have to be in an Akha village one time and watch these people forcibly overthrow the traditional culture and religion of the village to understand how truly fascist these people are.

Follow the money. Three is a lot of it flowing in Chiangrai these days.


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