Please forward widely. Matthew McDaniel was in Thailand many years until a year ago when he was deported for his activism to save the Akha hill tribes from exploitation, torture, imprisonment, child theft, land expropriation, and especially for his activism exposing the thousands killed since 2003 from Thai police/army drug-war death squads aided by U.S. equipment, funding, and training. Matthew has been documenting this for years at the UN and on his Yahoo Groups and in his publications. The major part of the coverage of the drug-war death squads begins in the Akha Yahoo Group message archive beginning in the 2003 section:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Akhaweeklyjournal and 

 

Matthew McDaniel <akha@...> wrote:

To: akhaweeklyjournal@yahoogroups.com
From: Matthew McDaniel <akha@...>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:16:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [AkhaWeeklyJournal] Akha Journal: Retaliation against family increasingly clear


Dear Friends:

US Homeland Security said today that despite the fact
that visa applications for January 12th have already
been processed for their next stage, that the visa
application for my wife still hasn't been processed
and that it is with a "Security Officer".

They told the congressional rep to call back in a
month, what they have been saying since March 1, 2005.

This was also the application that they said did not
qualify for humanitarian consideration.

It is increasingly clear that Homeland Security is
continuing the State Department retaliation for my
human rights work in Thailand.

In order to do so they are targeting my family.

Our four children have US passports but their mother's
visa still can not be processed let alone expedited.

It is still held up at the FIRST stage, in California,
after which it would have to go to the visa
processsing center in New Hampshire where more time
will be lost.

It has now been over a year since I left my family in
Thailand.

You may contact who ever you will.

Matthew McDaniel

The Akha Heritage Foundation.
http://www.akha.org  Akha Heritage Site.
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