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Destroying Akha Culture - The Vernon Journal

You will have to type vernonjournal.com into your browser to see Lori and Paul.
We would suggest that you look at this site and see how lacking it is in substance about the true conditions of the Akha.
On Lori's facebook you can see a pic of the Akha working for very little money on tea harvesting.
The villge that Lori and Paul live in was once before made up of traditional Akha who were moved there by their mission, Akha Outreach. Then their culture was destroyed, so when Lori and Paul refer to culture, what exactly are they talking about?

The land was paid for by donors, but it is still owned by Ajay at Akha outreach, that is the only way to control the villagers. If he gave them the paper on the land they might tell him and Lori and Paul to fob off.

Land rights, ID cards, land seizures, the take over of all this hill land by wealthy chinese mafia in the region, none of this is mentioned by Lori and Paul on their website. There is no information at all about the history of misisonaries in the region, the context within which Paul and Lori work.

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