Caught without a country - 05 Aug 07

Five years ago, the Thai police arrested Afang Chue Mua and threatened to deport her, to send her to back to Myanmar. But Afang was born in Thailand and so were her parents. They are members of one of seven hill tribes living in Northern Thailand. David Hawkins, reporting for Al Jazeera from mae Chan in Thailand, investigates the country's stateless people.

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News & Politics

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• Thailand
• hill
• tribes
• David
• Hawkins
• Myanmar
• stateless

[CrazyNative4]

i have some akha tribal textiles, and they are cool !

[cuaj1ib]

I agree with you @fanplaing we all human have feeling and deserve place to live, thank to Aljazeera and David H.

[fanplaing]

Sis, to me you are Thai.

เชื้ัอสายประเพณีไม่มีขีดกั้น

เกิดใต้ร่มธงไตรรงค์นั้น ปวงชนทุกคนคือไทย...

[PreludeSi91]

THailand is a big country..leave the poor people alongggggggggggggggg stupid thai Goverment.

[Batulao83]

It was one on my list to visit before I hit the bucket. :) also planning to visit Australia

[TheTollundWoman]

i'd love to go to egypt someday...

[Batulao83]

By the way, I went to Egypt last Sept and I was with a tour group composed of almost 90% Australians. Very nice people, I fell at the Valley of the Kinds and hurt my knee so bad, they were always asking how I am.

[Batulao83]

Thanks, some human beings are so stupid, conquering nations without benevolence or being ruthless dictators, these people are their countrymen. Well, it happened even in Egypt, 4000 years ago, I guess human beings are sometimes just simply stupid.

[TheTollundWoman]

What my country did to the Native Americans was completely *wrong*, but 2 wrongs don't make a right and the way Europe has treated the Roma is *equally wrong*

[TheTollundWoman]

you got that right!