By Matthew McDaniel
20 Dec. 2005
Vientiane, Laos
The Akha Heritage Foundation
A US non-profit Organization
Salem, Oregon
www.akha.org
I had an interesting experience in Laos here this week.
We got together, a few of us, talking about reports and what was going on in Laos about the Akha hill tribe way up north. A few other tribes like the not so small Hmong are involved as well. Yeah, total poppy eradication. Its a US kind of thing to do. But it wouldn’t have gotten done so easily if so many NGO’s weren’t so busy helping out. Keeping silent.
The EU saying they didn’t support it when they really did, cause they signed. They all needed jobs you see, supervising poverty, development, resource looting, needs to be done in a certain way. Sustainable development, put those special polished words in reports.
The US tip toeing through the old left over bombs to cut down the poppies that supplied food to remote villagers in a country that hardly has a road let alone a hospital.
Hell, Hitler, Mengele, Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, it all comes to mind, thousands of people effected, only difference is maybe its not hundreds of thousands, but for each one the death is the same. Disease, poverty, starvation, watching one’s children die. We are sort of stuck in the middle of it too, on exile from Thailand but no visa for the wife so we have to just hang, between to families, two countries, only it gave us chance to see what all the murmuring and rumbling was up north in Laos, the people dying from just one more US war against people.
What is interesting is that people want to talk about it, they will even write reports about it. But nothing formal. Maybe they want to wash their hands. Here is a link of part of a report the French did, we still have to type it in, because ACF won’t give anyone a full electronic copy, and we hear that the REAL report is much bigger. No, it might go public. http://www.akha.org/content-499.html Now get this. No one wants to say, the US did all this, that NGO’s did all this, but thats true.
We even heard from reliable sources that Norwegian Church Aid PAID people to go out and cut down the opium of the Akha. They said it was bad for women, but the women planted it and the women ate the food that it bought, so frig Norwegian Church Aid, they need a special place in hell.
Social engineering lies.
The reports are here, if we can get them all, the ACF people, they got somewhere the real report, maybe we can get that too. And behind that are the real interviews, the real data on many many villages.
Aiding or Abetting, that was another report, all the DATA is there that says the US and UNODC forced this drug war on Laos, that the US PAID for the death, that they murdered with disease and starvation hundreds if not thousands of people. David J. Wise was one of the hands in this war. We call him the “Architect of Death”. http://www.akha.org/article389.html
I’ve been to the villages, you can see it happening in broad band, people so poor, they will tell you in their own language how many people died, how many babies. Killed by the USA. Maybe what’s his name, Springstein, should sing that hit:
“Killed By the USA, Killed by the USA…
I was just a baby in a far away land….
But I was
Killed by the USA, Killed by the USA”
Even the people that make the reports, they don’t want them showing up on our website, or as one person said, “if you are going to be in Laos, and if you are going to say ANYTHING critical of anyone, any NGO or any Government, then you might as well throw everything in the trash.” What happened to integrity?
Others are afraid they could be deported.
The government of Laos, pressured by the US Govt. to comply with opium eradication might not care if the NGO’s and Report makers came out and said more LOUDLY that it is the USA that is doing the killing here. And the Norwegians of course, and a few others, but the USA leads the way. Maybe they might even get a few bucks to pick up all the US bombs.
Oh, and the other gig, mosquito nets, we’ve heard it all as to why the NGO’s don’t give mosquito nets to the Akha. Not withstanding, Vientiane is a place where you can walk across the city on the roof tops of new NGO Toyota Land Cruisers.
Killed by the USA, Killed by the USA
Merry Christmas to you too!
and lets not forget those faceless Americans down at USCIS.