Dear Friends:

 

A server domain name error caused the www.akha.org website to go off line, not a hacker or any other interference.  Thankyou for your patience re bounced emails and thanks for the concern also.

 

For your records in the future, akhazauh@... is our alternative email address.

 

Mr. Ah Nay of Bpah Mah Hahn Akha who was taken out of the village by the army and beaten has been released.  The army told me three days, I went back on Monday, took a photo of the base, as well as got Mr. Ah Nay out of his earthen pit.  I asked the army who beat his face and broke his ribs.  They didn't know.  Mr. Ah Nay said three of them did it, older soldiers, not the young ones. 

 

Pics will go up on the web site.  Mr. Ah Nay is a small man, has smoked opium for thirty years, the army found some old opium ash in the pocket of an old pair of pants and kicked him awake. He was sleeping off his detox medicine.

 

I have finished the second edition of the Akha Journal.  Nearly 300 pages.  Three languages with lots of photos and documents as well as stories.

 

Hopefully they will not be this big in the future but due to all the killings it just sort of snowballed.  The number of killings delayed the publication which we will now undertake.

 

So I am hoping for more regular smaller editions again in the future.  But first this one.

I will be proof reading this one over the next days and then getting it ready for press.

 

Matthew McDaniel