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The Akha: Imprisonment
For decades now the hilltribe of Thailand and Burma have been the slaves
for the drug industry, hardly able to stay alive yet making billions of
dollars for the drug barons and the military hardware makers who supply
the toys to fight them. Meanwhile the criminalization of drugs has become
the justification for any kind of brutal treatment at either the hands
of renegades or the police.
Tribes such as the Akha, Lahu, Lisaw and Hmong continue to experience
high arrest rates and imprisonment with all the associated violence
as the drugs and chemicals flow through their mountain neighborhoods.
Meanwhile government agencies such as Thai Forestry continue to take
away their rice lands making the situation only worse.
