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Library Unsettling Moves: The Wa forced resettlement program in Eastern Shan State

Unsettling Moves: The Wa forced resettlement program in Eastern Shan State

Unsettling Moves: The Wa forced resettlement program in Eastern Shan State

Resource information

Date of publication
maart 2002
Resource Language
ISBN / Resource ID
OBL:48270

Beginning 1999 up to March this year (2002), hundreds of thousands of Wa people, who had
impressed British travelers as 'exceedingly well-behaved, industrious, and estimable race', were
forcibly moved to border areas adjacent Thailand. The report is about them, why and how they were
uprooted, what happened to the native people where the Wa were forced to resettle and what the
reader can do to help both categories of victims..."
Important, timely and well-produced
document, complete with maps and photos.

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