ELL: Help Urgently Needed: Forced move of Akha village in 30 days

Sun Dec 26 20:08:43 UTC 1999

ACTION ALERT!!!!!!

This is a very urgent message!!!!!

Please forward it to all the people who you know!!!!!!

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FORCED MOVING OF AN AKHA VILLAGE

There is the immediate need for people to come to north Thailand and
locate
in a remote Akha mountain village to prevent its 400 inhabitants from
being
forced to move within the next 30 days, meaning by the end of January
2000.  Happy new Millenium, the new world order.  They will have to
abandon all their land and homes and have to pay to
move all
their possesions to a place where they will have no land to farm, no
place
for their animals to grow and breed, and live instead in concrete box
like
houses with asbestos ceilings and on a very steep  hillside opened up
in such
a way that mud sliding is imminent next rainy season.

This move is highly illegal on the part of the Thai government and
forestry
department and these people have no voice and don't want to move down
to the
last person.

The village has been there for 78 years and there are people who have
lived
in the village since then.

This village move will only be stopped by a physical presence such
that
intervention is obviously on an international level.

If no one comes, there will be no blocking the move, and all the
families
will be shoved into poverty by the forestry department.  They have
been told
they will not be allowed to become citizens of Thailand if they do not
agree
to the move.

There are not many days left.

Please contact me if you want more info or can come, the village is
waiting
to hear if anyone will come and help them.  They have no rights, they
know
that, which leaves others to help them.

Matthew McDaniel

Matthew McDaniel
The Akha Heritage Foundation
386/3 Sailom Joi Rd
Maesai, Chiangrai, 57130
Thailand
Mobile Phone Number:  Sometimes hard to reach while in Mountains.
66-01-881-9288

US Address:

Donations by check or money order may be sent to:

The Akha Heritage Foundation
PO BOX 6073
Salem OR 97304
USA

By Visa Card Secure Site:

https://www.givetocharity.com/cgi-bin/give.pl?CODE=10956

Donations by direct banking can be transferred to:
(Preferred)

Wells Fargo Bank
Akha Heritage Foundation
Acc. # 0081-889693
Keizer Branch # 1842  04
4990 N. River Road.
Keizer, Oregon,  97303 USA
ABA # 121000248

Or In Thailand:

Matthew  Duncan McDaniel
Acc. # 3980240778
Bangkok Bank Ltd.
Maesai Branch
Thailand

Web Site:

http://www.akha.com
mailto:akha at loxinfo.co.th

Discussion Groups:
akha at onelist.com
indigenousworld at onelist.com

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