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The Akha Heritage Foundation - www.akha.org
Akha Human Rights - Akha University
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The exploitation of the Akha through tourism continues as a repulsive form of the hypocrisy of the Thai Government. Thousands of tourists a year see pictures of Akha on pamphlets, luring them to visit the land of smiles. They are led up into the mountains where the Akha are treated as zoo attractions, and then leave without being exposed to the poverty and truth of the situation they just took advantage of.
Money pours into the tourism industry. The Akha, an important part of the trade, are never compensated in any way, economic or otherwise. They have no way to demand their rights. The degradation and injustice of the system is maddening.
Tourism does not relace land rights or citizenship rights.
Below are pictures of an exchange between Akha women who beg to sell their items for ten baht, (25 cents) who come from an extremely impoverished and displaced village east of Tatong on the Rimkok River.
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