South East Asia

US Missionaries Force Sterilisation of the Akha woman

Submitted by Akha on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:40
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Fri, 11/30/2007 - 09:24 — Carried out by North American missionaries, this ethnocide, is an outrage that just has to be stopped, before the extermination of the home less & land less Akha is completed. What kind of a world is this, if we just stand by and allow these so called christians! to get away with this.

Akha Ride for Freedom

Submitted by Akha on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:34
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Mon, 11/05/2007 - Akha

Press Release
Nov. 3, 2007
The Akha Heritage Foundation
PO BOX 6073
Salem, Oregon 97304
www.akha.org
akhalife (a t) gmail.com

"Ride For Freedom"
Coast to Coast by Horseback for Akha Human Rights

Matthew McDaniel and members of the Akha Heritage Foundation will be campaigning for Akha Human Rights and Akha Project advancement with a US National Human Rights Tour.

But there is something different about this tour.

Intervention at UNPFII on Behalf of the Akha People of Thailand

Submitted by Akha on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 20:45
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Here is a video about the Akha Intervention that I presented at New York for the 6th Session of the UNPFII.

See it here, on YouTube.com

The Thais have not responded to our concerns about the Queen taking the land of Hooh Yoh Akha, in more than two years.

The Queen of Thailand in fact has taken the land from adjacent villages including Pah Nmm Akha, in Ampur Mae Faluang, Chiangrai Province and other villages as well.

We need volunteers and lots of help to change this situation.

The Vanishing Batak Tribe

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 20:01
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The end of the Batak had come and gone. Their culture was already gone. The language was all that remained. Do you doom yourself and your children to lives of abject poverty, ridden with disease and living with hunger on a daily basis just to preserve a language?

A. C. F. Batik Sexual abuse report

Submitted by Akha on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:41
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Description:

Its about the investigation into the situation of ACF staff in Laos sexually abusing Akha women and girls in the target villages.

Download here:
1.8MB PDF

For more info see: www.Akha.org

Strip converts of quota benefits, demand tribals

Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:28
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Ranchi - Jharkhand tribal leaders and priests want immediate stripping of reservation facilities of past members of their community who are now converted Christians.

The tribal group, known as Sarna, has demanded that the reservation facilities provided to tribal Christians be stopped immediately.
The Kendriya Sarna Samiitee (KSS), one of the prominent organisations, has taken the lead in making the demand.

Aeta: From ‘lubay’ to Levi’s - 15 years after Mt. Pinatubo eruption

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:21
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BOTOLAN, Zambales -- The world’s worst eruptions in the second half of the 20th century failed to erase the Aeta tribe from the face of the earth.

Fifteen years after Mount Pinatubo let out its biggest blasts in their ancestral abode on June 15, 1991, the Aeta population in the provinces of Zambales, Pampanga and Tarlac has almost doubled from just over 50,000 at the height of the disaster, data from the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in Central Luzon showed.

Protect Akha Human Rights - Akha voices

Submitted by Akha on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:16
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My name is Michu Wurh Zurh. I am an Akha woman and I live in northern Thailand.

My husband helped the Akha people, that is all he did and the Thai government kicked him out of Thailand in April of 2004. They did not like that he helped my people. We are 70,000 in Thailand. He gave the Akha free medicine, milk for mother’s, vitamins, took people to the hospital. He did it all for free. He did not kill anyone, he did not sell drugs, so why has the Thai government kicked him out of Thailand?

AKHA VOICES - Akha Human Rights - UPDATED WITH FILM

Submitted by Akha on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:14
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The Akha struggle for their human rights in SE Asia. One of the most severe human rights situation for the Akha People is in Thailand.
The Thai government continues to seize Akha land as confirmed in the US Human Rights Report on Thailand for 2005. The Thai government continues to harass Akha Human Rights workers. The Thai government continues to carry out extra-judicial killings of the Akha people.

NGO's & Church Rape Indigenous

Submitted by Akha on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:12
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Akha villagers in Northern Laos testified on video that Norwegian Church Aid and Action Contra La Faim staff coming to their villages to do various projects had demanded village girls to rape on repeated occasions. Staff often stayed for weeks at a time in villages while doing projects. Akha villagers said that the practice was widespread on the part of numerous NGO‘s in the Muang Long area. Akha villagers gave the names of many villages where the rapes occurred and the names of specific girls who had been raped and became pregnant. Girls ranged in age from 15 to 18.