If you want to wait for the UN to help, guess again!

And there are relatively no NGO's looking out for their rights in North Thailand short of using them to raise money for compounds, rigs and the good life. In this environment the missions work. The missions are predominantly Protestant Evangelical from the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, Taiwan, Korea and a few other countries.

Whatever their denials to the contrary, the missions condemn the Akha traditional way of life, introduce and push the "individual" over the "community", break the parent to child link of transmission of the culture and language while either forbidding or seriously discouraging all that it takes to preserve and promote one's own culture. They don't do this in their own back yard, they come to Thailand to build their campaigns and do it on the backs of the captive audience, the Akha.

Requests for privacy and to not be invaded on the part of headmen of Akha villages are ignored. The missionaries are a law unto themselves, and as they get bloated and fat off their long term visas and budgets, adding yet this building and that building, the Akha see little improvements to their own rights.

The missionaries don't worry, because they either are foreign passport holders or soon will be by marrying to a foreigner at the mission. The latter we call the "Akha Elite". They are the traitors and stooleys for the missions, pressuring their own people to convert for financial reward of the good life from the missions in helping them attain their conversion and church placement goals. They no longer live in the villages, drive nice cars, "run the ops" and play lots of golf.

The investment in the mission homes and compounds set up to benefit the Akha is in the millions of US $'s! Just about none of it reaches the villages or is made available for self determination on part of traditional Akha. At best "convert and we will help you" is the standard line.

The most dangerous element of this process is that the missions must grow to justify themselves and their ever increasingly bloated budgets. They claim they are under the great commission to share the gospel, and this must go forward. What must go forward is their budgets. And this presents the biggest problem to the traditional Akha because in order for the missions to innocently meet their goals they must continue to "convert" village after village. This is not an Akha idea. Matter of fact in locations where the Akha are wealthiest they don't want anything to do with the missions. Missions prosper where there are the least human rights and where the people are under the greatest duress.

Be it Catholic or Protestant the litany of excuses for the Akha "wanting" to give up their culture is always the same. "The Head dresses are heavy" "The dresses are immodest and short" (never been to an evangelical church full of spandex?) "They always have to kill chickens" (What do the missionaries eat, rats?) "They condone free sex" (well, probably a whole lot less than the average baptist youth group). Always the smear and put down to justify what it is they are doing. One has yet to meet an informed, honest and intelligent missionary. Notably they are from the lilly white segment of mid America. They are right, by God!

Rubbish. Rubbish we say, the missions are exploiting them for their own organizational and personal agendas, to keep themselves well fed and out of hell if nothing else, it is God and Glory. In this day, when the Pope himself is apologizing for the sins of the church against Jews and Tribal peoples, the missions on the ground are silent and the Protestants say nothing at all.

This ongoing campaign of years comes at a time when these very missions claim the village "is finished" and like merciless vultures wait for the Akha to continue their attrition from the villages as the government takes more and more of their rice growing land and the Akha are pressured out of the mountains. This mentality, instead of direct assistance to prop up the villages, shows the true racist agendas of these white based and white dominated Christian mission organizations.

Fully aware of the record of past missionaries in dealings with indigenous peoples around the world, the missionaries of Northern Thailand, mostly foreigners, many from the United States, lay siege to village after traditional Akha village, forcing these humble people into their camp. This web site is committed to exposing these practices, the peoples and missions involved, the huge amount of moneys consumed, and the persistent intent to wipe out the Akha race and every trace of their culture. These Are The Missions That Are Actively Engaged In The TOTAL Destruction Of Akha Traditional Culture:
American Baptists
Dapa
ACT
Korean Presbyterians
Taiwanese Baptists
Maesai Baptist Church
Huai Krai Missions
The Catholics
The Pentecostals
House of Grace
And a host of others.

	This is the large Chinese Baptist mission called Emanuel Christian Fellowship, in an Akha village near Huai Krai.  It is run by an American Chinese woman. The village has traditional culture Akhas living in it, and many Catholics as well, but the very well-to-do Protestant mission feels it has the right to broadcast its religious messages over a large PA system to the entire village whether it likes it or not. Suicides and deaths due to poverty are common in this village.
	This woman's husband drank this herbicide and killed himself because he could not feed his kids. They live within 20 meters of this mission.  I asked the mission worker why they could not help.  They said they "can not help everybody, we are here to teach the Bible."
	Note the 2 (two!!!) satelite dishes on the roof. This photo was taken from within 20 meters of the tiny bamboo hut where the man killed himself.  On the far side of the mission building in an adjacent hut a woman drank poison because she had no medicine for her daughter. A new second mission building has been added on just to the left of this photo. The mission uses a new $20,000. four-wheeler.
	The recent addition to an already wealthy mission in an impoverished village.
	This anex compound of the Chinese mission above is only a few hundred meters away in an adjacent village and is now adding on a second large meeting hall. The Akha who go to this church tell the Akha in a nearby traditional village that the reason that they get sick in that village is because they don't believe in Jesus. In reality the death rate is higher in this village not counting the suicides. People should have the right to learn about and believe in what they wish, but what a way to learn about Jesus Christ. Propaganda, carelessly and dishonestly passed about make the Akha nothing more than chattel to the missionaries. These people in most cases do not speak the language or have any understanding of the culture, nor do they have any reference material on the culture, yet they feel they have the right to forbid it.
	Korean Presbyterian Mission This sect also forbids the practicing of the Akha culture.
	This Pentecostal Training Center was imposed in the center of a bamboo village that was already Catholic.  Cost estimated at 1,700,000 baht. There is no clinic in the village. Catholic villagers are allowed to practice their traditions. Those who wish to align themselves with this hard line Protestant church must abandon all of their culture which has been labeled as praying to the Devil.
	This is a Chinese Baptist church in Hua Mae Kam. The leaders of this church forbade the nearby Akha to practice any of their traditions and required that the Nyeeh Pah, or Spirit Woman, quit healing people because she must be praying to the Devil if they can't understand it. Besides, the Chinese don't believe like the Akha, so if you want to believe in Jesus Christ, you have to be like the Chinese.
This Protestant church is in a mountain village.  It, as so many of the churches, is built right in the center of the village.  The building is kept locked on all but Sunday.  It is used for no other purpose. The pastor as policeman for the church, forbids anything that resembles traditional culture, save the dress.  Once again healing ceremonies are forbidden.  The missionaries specifically said the culture is forbidden. Evil.  This particular sect is supported by fundamentalist Chinese of a narrow sect from Malaysia. The pastor wanted to take a second wife, but since being a Protestant forbid that, he just pushed his first wife and her three kids out. Easy enough. Although Akha culture is forbidden in this village you can find numerous illegal and impoverishing activities in this village from gambling to drugs.  There would seem to be no connection between the running of the church with its heavy hand and the actual well being of the village. The village water system is contaminated. Any medical service is a long way off and if you cannot pay, you die.  The church does nothing. When I spoke with one of the missionaries he felt they had the right to forbid the culture.
	This Protestant church has required all of its Akha members to cease practicing their culture.  This eliminates much of the songs, traditions, dances and ceremonies associated with the growing of rice and survival.  The Akha, already impoverished, are also told they must stop working on Sundays.  They are forbidden to take part in healing ceremonies as well.
	Closeup of the Chinese Baptist church in Hua Mae Kam.
Church of unknown affiliation. Culture of local village forbidden. They say it is always "voluntary." 1 pig, 1 blanket maybe. Mae Chan Luang Akha Village: This village is under pressure and being split by a mission in Huai Krai and Taiwanese Baptists, working in tandem with other missions and a church in Joseh Thai on the Mae Chan to Tatong Highway. Sala Boh Tah is the young pastor being used by the Chinese Baptists for this work in Mae Chan Luang Village.  Mae Chan Luang is located up the mountain behind Doi Mae Salong. The headman of this village, Ah Bauh, requested that these missionaries not interfere in his traditional village. The missionaries said that they did not have to listen to him or the elders and that they would do what they wanted. One family was having problems in the village so Sala Boh Tah convinced that family to convert in order to escape their responsibilities to the village.  They did with 8 other families.  Three of these families returned to the traditional part of the village after a couple of months. The church meetings with singing and music were disruptively carried on in the village night after night from the home of Booh Dzmm.  Approximately three months after these "conversions" both Booh Dzmm and her sister and three other girls left the village for Bangkok to become prostitutes.  Pastor Boh Tah could not explain how this related to them hosting the church in their home? We asked the missionary, a Chinese man at the mission in Huai Krai why they were splitting the village against the will of the headman, the recognized leader of that village by the Thai government.  He could not answer.

Mission Truck	Salvation Center Van
These people, associated with Maesai Baptist, trash culture!	The "Canaan Exodus Project"

Look at all the Churches!!
Is this American colonization or what?