In 2003 the Akha of Hooh Yoh Akha village came over to Pah Nmm Village where I lived on the other hill and asked me to help them because the Queen of Thailand was taking away all of their farm land, about 4500 acres, for a Royal Project.
I took on that task to fight the Queen and get the land back for the Akha of Hooh Yoh.
She is human, and the Akha needed their own land more than she needed it.
Further, I never really cared who was causing the problem for the Akha, just as long as they would stop.
So I have made now a video appeal, to the Queen of Thailand, who’s government deported me by means of a thank you a few months later.
I am asking the Queen of Thailand, to give back the land of Hooh Yoh Akha. The land of 1500 people. People now made basically captive slaves to work for her on land that they used to farm as their own, free. And enjoy the harvest they created. There were no Thais living there till the Queen came up there in her helicopter.
So just give back the land please, will you.
I get tired that you get another international human rights award every time you take land from poor people.
And after you got me deported, or your henchmen, I didn’t see my wife and four kids for over a year.
The Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE_vybndFTI
Info on Hooh Yoh:
Queen’s Admission to the project:
http://www.chaipat.or.th/chaipat/journal/aug03/hill_e.html
Other Info
http://www.akha.org/content/forestry/index.html
http://www.akha.org/upload/hoohyoh/highresolutionpictureshoohyoh.html
http://www.akha.org/content/forcedrelocations/hoohyoh.html
Matthew McDaniel
http://www.akha.org
