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Akha and Indymedia Activist Arrested in Thailand

Matthew McDaniel is a Human Rights activist that has been living and working with the Akha tribe in Northern Thailand since 1991. Recently he also got involved in setting up an Indymedia in Thailand. Last week he got arrested at the border between Thailand and Burma and he is now being detained at a deportation centre in Bangkok.

According to an activist that recently travelled through Thailand Matthews arrest puts not only his family but the whole village in danger. "By his sheer presence and loud mouth he was the 'protector' of the village, the police and military were reluctant to enter the village." According to a friend of Matthews the "village might be under attack". He said he doesn't know what the "Thai and the Burmese government are capable or willing to do".

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