ࡱ> c jbjbSS 11]JJJJ22228j v28FJ(rrrQQQUWWWWWW,zQMQQQ?JJrrF???Q J8rrUpJJJJQU??VTU4c22?I Chapter 18 The Drug War Is A Lie Militarization of Akha related border lands (Recommended Reading - The Politics of Heroin In South East Asia- Alfred McCoy) The drug was was something imposed by the United States and it had direct consequences on the Akha. It was hypocritical and manipulated. In the end it became a terror of its own to impose control on the peoples without helping them. You would not believe the mess that meth is making in the villages now. How foolishly and blindly they have ignored (intentionally) the poverty of these people and now meth is king and right after that someone blasts you with a gun, but always more volunteers. I see more and more heated arguments in the villages between elders trying to stop the trafficing and those who are profiteering. When I look at the options of the villagers while forestry greedily takes more and more of the land, it is little wonder, for sure it is an economic war and pills the bullets. ONDCP under Bush administration Why Did The Thais Attack The Burmese Outpost At Dawn? Did Chavalit's investments in Tachilek have anything to do with it? The CIA and closing the road to China, keeping the drug slavery going? Thursday March 22, 1:49 PM Thai general says some politicians involved in drug trade > By Nopporn Wong-Anan > > BANGKOK (Reuters) - An outspoken Thai army general responsible for > defending > the country's northern border with Myanmar said on Thursday several Thai > politicians > and businessmen were involved in drugs trafficking across the frontier. > > Lieutenant-General Wattanachai Chaimuanwong, commander of Thailand's > third > army, told Thai radio he could not take legal action against the > culprits because he did > not have any authority or evidence to do so. > > "I can't arrest them because we are not authorised to, even though we > know what they > are doing," Wattanachai said. "Narcotics trafficking is a multi-billion > baht business > involving hundreds of people and networks... Politicians need money from > them to buy > votes." > > Wattanachai has been extremely critical of Myanmar following clashes at > the border > last month. > > He says Myanmar's government is encouraging the activities of the United > Wa State > Army (UWSA), the source of most of the methamphetamine pills flooding > Thailand. > > Myanmar insists that it is clamping down on drugs and says the UWSA, an > ethnic Wa > militia group, should not be made a scapegoat for the problem. > > Wattanachai's comments have often contradicted Defence Minister Chavalit > Yongchaiyudh, who boasts good personal connections with Yangon's ruling > generals, > fuelling speculation in the Thai media that Wattanachai could be > transferred to a > higher but inactive post later this year. > > The two countries, which share a 2,400 km (1,490 mile) border, have > waged a war of > words since their troops exchanged fire in February clashes that left > several dead. > > Thai and Myanmar officials plan to hold their first border talks in two > years on April 2-4 > in the northeastern Myanmar town of Kengtung in a bid to soothe > simmering tensions. > > Among the issues Thailand wants to discuss at the meeting are > cooperation to fight > drugs, problems with refugees and illegal immigrant workers, and > disagreements over > some sections of the border. > > General Sampao Choosri, supreme commander of the Armed Forces, told > reporters > on Wednesday the resumption of a healthy bilateral relationship would > emerge only > after talks at a national level. > > The last regional border meeting was held in Thailand's southern resort > of Phuket in > March 1999. > The Nation - March 22, 2001. Politicians trading in drugs: General > > THIRD Army Region Commander General Watanachai Chaimuanwong yesterday > said more than 10 Thai politicians and businessmen were involved in > narcotics > trafficking and production in Burma and Thailand's northern region. > > He was responding to a news report suggesting Burma had a list of 10 > Thai politicians > who had prominent roles in the production and trafficking of drugs, > particularly > methamphetamines. > > "It is for sure that a number of Thais - politicians and businessmen - > are involved in the > syndicates," said Watanchai. > > "Our Office of Narcotics Control Board has a list of them, more than 10 > of course," he > added. > > Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said he would make no statement > relating to the > Burmese claims this time. > > "I have my own way to check and deal with this case," he said. "Burma is > aware > already of my strong efforts to tackle the drug problem." > > Meanwhile former prime minister Chuan Leekpai said he had never been > shown the > list. "It would be good if Burma gave the list to the Thai side, however > we have to > check the facts first," he said. > > "During my premiership, Rangoon never gave such a list to me." > > Thailand and Burma have exchanged verbal barbs since last month, when > Burmese > troops encroached on Thai territory in pursuit of ethnic Shan rebels. > > Watanachai was the first to come out and criticise Burma's actions, and > allege its > involvement in drug trafficking. > > His criticisms are considered to have broken Thailand's traditional > diplomatic > approach - to avoid making direct criticisms of other countries, > particularly neighbours. > The situation became tense after Thaksin lashed out at Burma and the > Burmese > affiliated United Wa State Army. > > The conflict resulted in the closure of the Thai-Burma checkpoint > linking Chiang Rai > with Burma's Tachilek. Thailand recently re-opened its side of the > checkpoint, but > Burma has not. Watanachai yesterday said raw materials and the equipment > used to > produce narcotics were imported illegally into Burma from Thailand. > > "It is a fact that chemicals and materials used in the production of > speed pills and > other narcotics come from the Thai side," the general said. "The > ingredients are also > produced in China and sent to Burma through Thailand," he said. > > Thailand and Burma agreed to convene their Regional Boundary Committee > (RBC) in > Keng Tung on the Burmese side from April 2 to 4. The committee has not > met for two > years, because of the countries' shaky relationship. > > Watanachai said the main talking points in the meeting would be old > bilateral > problems that had never been seriously tackled, such as border > demarcation, illegal > immigration, fishing and narcotics. > > The Thai side would also raise Burma's intrusion into Chiang Rai > province last month, > Watanachai said. > > "We consider the upcoming RBC meeting as a proactive approach from the > Thai > side," he said. > > "The meeting is expected to help ease the tension." The International Drug War The Drug War In Thailand The Wa The Villages The Burmese Laundering Money. Where does all the Wa Baht Go? Poverty: Social and Economic Pressure Applied On Akha Villages, Land Rights Poverty Alleviation Motivations For Needing An Ongoing Drug War In Thailand Barons and Mules: The prices they pay. Death for the Barons, prison for the mules. How The Drug War Effects The Lives Of The Akha Hilltribe Some History: Drugs And Having Your Village Burned Poverty Exploitation Lack of Land Rights The Role of The Thai Forestry Department In Making The Problem Far Worse Night Time Search And Seizure In Akha Villages Arrests And Imprisonment: Lack Of Representation Murder In The Villages = Fear Forced Village Relocations Missions, The CIA, And The Destroying Of The Culture And Identity Of The Akha Big Churches, lots of money for that. No money for water, vitamins, land rights. Joking: Odd Encounters With Drug Agents Over the years the work with the Akha became more and more involved, coming to understand some of the story of the Akha people and finding ways to help them. Noting the abuses of the Akha people on the part of secure and rich missions and missionaries we oppose them. Paul W. Lewis of American Baptists and founder of DAPA was one of them. He sterilized hundreds of unsuspecting Akha women, many whose existing children then died, and were left without children or recourse, broken marriages, weakness, death. There was a mandate of silence out on the subject. The Chinese Baptists were another scourge. Some of the history behind this might be important. During the early years in Burma, the American Baptists worked closely with the CIA to build up and support the KMT. The KMT were involved in opium and heroin production. Some of the heroin supposedly went to Vietnam GI's and many other places. The KMT buildup was said to be an effort to distract the Chinese during the Korean War by attacking Yunnan Province of China, which the KMT did, and they were seriously beaten and driven back into Burma. The KMT brutally suppressed and taxed Akha hill tribe villagers in Burma's Shan state using the Akha villages as buffers against the Burmese who wanted the KMT out of Burma, and who defeated them repeatedly till they were driven south into Thailand or fled to Taiwan. C-47 flights supplied the KMT along with other activities, and the Akha at San Chai speak of the reckage of one such plane which was shot down near their village. Many Akha villages were plundered and burned, the Akha caught in a vicious crossfire that went on for years. The KMT further complicated the situation for the hill tribe by marrying into many of their villages such as the Lahu villages in Thailand, and the Lisaw. Their christian ranks cooperate closely with the Chinese Baptists (from America and Taiwan once again) to infiltrate and overthrow traditional Akha villages like Bpah Cheeh Akha near Prai A Pai which they are doing right now. Paul W. Lewis was a missionary in Keng Tung during these years until like the KMT he was kicked out. The Burmese said he was CIA. He relocated to Chiangmai. Meanwhile Bill Young, son of Missionary Gordon Young, was busy working the drug scene in Laos. Also from Chiangmai. Also CIA as was Paul W. Lewis. (Can anyone tell me how much money Lewis made off his book on the hill tribe while he had their trust, and the amount of money he made off trading in hill tribe artifacts? Fancy pretending anthropologist and missionary. (Darkness In Eldorado) A double death potion, Paul Lewis sold the gospel of Akha culture, while using another gospel to wipe out their culture in village after village in Burma or sew discord by taking over already screwed up Catholic Akha villages in Burma in a second wave. Paul Lewis attends Hani-Akha conferences speeking care and concern for the culture of these people. He unleashed the most virulent fundamentalist scourge on the Akha that they have ever seen and initiated dark attitudes toward the Akha on the part of his sterilization project which he called "true pioneering" for the Thai government, as he states in the video "Untimely Cut") Lewis set up DAPA run by two rabid fundamentalist, proselytizing Akha brothers called Yos and Ajay. For cooperating and remaining silent when proper, they were rewarded handsomely. For their excesses and ethical departures, they were promoted. DAPA tried to shun its religious connections without shunning what those religious connections continue to do to the less fortunate Akha. Ajay set up House of Grace, financed from that place in the US where they are nice to black people, possibly Georgia, and he required all his wards and workers to refute being Akha and become Christian. Called inmates, those children removed from villages for this kind of educational brainwashing run by the Christians, teaching them what bad people Akha really are. More than a hundred girls in custody at this facility. But then some problem about eating too much fruit close to the tree. (Ajay backed the Campus Crusade Jesus Film that preaches that the Akha Traditional Elders Killed Jesus, see how far a little dung on the boot will go? - see Jesus Film Incident in links. Checking with the Israeli Embassy they assured they had no record of any Akha in Israel at any time to date, so we do not know how this theory presented in the Florida based Campus Crusade Jesus Film Project can hold any truth, unless it is possibly related to Jenna Bush and the JFK assasination, maybe the Akha have been around a whole lot more than I previously thought?) Backed by the Taiwanese Baptist, Ah Sauh set up another "take and capture school" in Haen Taek where two Taiwanese brothers ran another wealthy project to own Akha Children. With a new home and a whole new complex it was obviously rewarding to him. However neither he nor any mission personnel, though implored, came to the rescue of Huuh Mah Akha, right up the road from there. However after the village was saved, they came to see if they could take it over. The Chinese Baptist Missions, heavily saturating the area, continued to have personnel from Taiwan. The Chinese Baptist Missions continues to consolidate their grip on the mountains with a full takeover of the Akha people and their villages. Thai army personnel became concerned of the fake ID cards supposedly issued by the Mae Faluang Ampur office personnel on the sly for "fees" to people who were actually Chinese, not Akha, only Akha borrowed names. Third Army corruption was also sited as a major problem. Population of Chinese who had these people concerned? 10,000. Population of Akha the Chinese missions were trying to take over in same region? 48,000. Who and what wants to hide behind who? The American Connected Chinese missions like Maesai Baptist, who just split Mae Chan Luang Akha behind Doi Mae Salong, a KMT stronghold, operate undisturbed despite the intense discord they create among the Akha and the trampling of their culture and indigenous rights. Emanuel Gospel Fellowship (run by Taiwanese Americans) illegally smuggles Wa people into Thailand for special training at their Huai Krai center. They are the mission which has repeatedly tried to over run the "Flat Village" where our ongoing fish project is slowly building up. Most of the other missions in Thailand are networked with the Chinese or American Baptist in some fashion. 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