We make careful note of the activities of missions as it relates to the human rights of the Akha people.

Why do we do this?

The reasons are that missionaries have set mission policy and choose to play a direct role in the lives of the Akha. These policies may be made up by individual missionaries as they go along or may have started at mission agencies back in the US or Europe dating back hundreds of years to the early colonial times, right back to the Papal Bulls which authorized Europe to take all the resources of the Indigenous peoples and "convert them".

On the ground in South East Asia, the missionaries have chosen to take a unique roll. But this is not so different than what they have done through out history, despite their lack of self inspection and ability to see it.

In South East Asia the missionaries have chosen to have the profile where they more often than not side with the will and powers of the local governments, rather than standing up for human justice and human rights. The missionaries use many ploys to deceive their donors as to the true nature of what is going on and their role in it. In Thailand the missionaries make incredible financial profit by removing Akha children to compounds that they build for this purpose. Children are needed to build the compound one way or the other. They promote to the west that they are saving the children. But from what we ask? From human rights abuses. But they never mention those abuses directly, or the causes, or the chain of abuses.

If the Akha are in danger of having their children pressed into prostitution, why don't the missionaries tell why? For one, the remedy would be direct and obvious and would eliminate the need to fund the missionaries in the agenda that they are currently using which would eliminate them in many ways as the middle men, making them obsolete if they did their jobs right.

Thai government abuses of human rights are what put the Akha in such a desperate condition. If the missionaries would identify these abuses and tell the donors about it, then everyone would know what is going on. But the missionaires don't, and this is where the deceptions and exploitation begin from their side.

The donors deserve long term solutions, not making more problems. But they don't get it. Site after missionary website fail to mention these facts. That the Thai government abuse of Akha human rights, land rights, medical rights, right to food, all the protections listed under the UN, are the cause of so much misery. Why? Because then maybe they wouldn't be so welcome in Thailand. Maybe they couldn't have all the perks they now have off donor money. Building repetitive small empires, using the children mill for bait, the children moving on, the missionaries keeping all the assets.

The most cost effective way to help the Akha is to protect them in their villages. Supporting human rights, making demands of the Thai government, keeping children with families. Its amazing how hundreds of children can disappear to missions and no one asks a single word about where all the families are? Family values? One may get the occasional fill all answer, "their father used drugs". Another stupid way of characterizing a much more complex situation. Make the parents the easy villain instead of the Thai government.

This deception that deprives the Akha of what is theirs is further expanded by the missionaries, attempting to portray the Akha as much more immoral than Americans, missionaries, church people, Thais, Chinese, Shans. That way they can look even that much more justified to "civilize" the tribes. Much like what was done in the US to the Indians, when in fact the point was just to take the land. We recommend looking at the discription of the Akha on the OMF website as one example.

Well the point is still just to take the land, this time in Thailand. By keeping silent about the human rights abuses and even teaching the Akha children that they can't stay in the mountains the missionaries abuse the Akha.

Missionaries even say that they are helping the Thai government by removing the children. So they can feel righteous about it.

We find it intersting to note, that many Taiwanese are running missions to remove Akha children from the mountaions, while many other Chinese are building empires in the mountains on Akha land, to have flower farms and tea farms, fully understanding how valuable this land is.

That is why we watch the activities of the missionaries and inform the public what the real equation is. If missionaries want to help the Akha they need to do it in the villages, not in big institutionalizing compounds, and not by taking away children or trying to convert them.

Ajay, Yot, Yohan, Ah Sauh and others, combined with the Taiwanese, Americans, and Europeans are part of this process. The end result is that an Ethnocide, a Genocide occurs. The removal of large numbers of Akha children to other groups.

The Akha identity, traditions, language and culture is destroyed. We think that is wrong.

In the humorous movie "Monster Inc." the screams of the children were used to power a city, to build and run a city, but no one knew it. We think that the tragedy of the Akha villages and the suffering of the children is being used in this same way by missionaries, who remove the children, pose as saviours while playing very carefully in a deception. Do Akha children suffer by being deprived of the love of their parents, their village, their community? We think so and we think it is very immoral what the missionaries are doing. Again.