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It has been playing out in thai soaps and movies. They use as a derogatory term: For example: calling Thaksin Miao. So you tell me peaceboy.
Queen of Thailand also robbed minority lands too. I have evidence and you don't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5pG3DcDPGAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE_vybndFTII have too many solid evidences
Success of development foundation in Thailand
One of the most heart-warming stories that we have come across recently is the incredible work carried out by an amazing development foundation in Northern Thailand.
Over many years of hardship and poverty the hill tribes of the Northern triangle region of Thailand had resorted to cutting down the rain forests to clear land to grow opium and, as their only form of income, the whole culture of these ancient peoples was degenerating into drug addiction, crime and prostitution. Under Thai Royal patronage, the foundation has created ways to halt deforestation and create alternative income and also provide realistic opportunities to preserve the hill tribes’ culture and traditions. By concentrating on developing their traditional ancient skills, and by introducing sustainable alternative crops, such as coffee and nuts, a wonderful transformation has taken place.
Highland agricultural projects have replaced the cultivation of opium as an economic crop and as a result of the reforestation programme, forest cover has significantly increasedcredit:
http://www.naturalcollection.com/organic/b...o-friendly.aspxProject Area
When Their Majesties first spent their northern holidays at Bhuping Palace on the hills of Chaing Mai, they took time to visit Hilltribe villages close by. They noticed that while hike
people grew opium poppy, destroying forest and watershed in doing so, they were poor. About 25 years ago, His Majesty learned from a Meao man near Bhuping Palace that, apart from poppy, they had another cash crop, a local variety of peach which is small in size and can only be used for picking. Yet this peach produced for them nearly as much income as opium. His Majesty they thought that by grafting improved variety onto local rootstock, the fruit should become bigger and produce higher income than the illegal poppy. To find out if his idea were correct, he immediately founded the 'Royal Project' to work on it.
"The purpose of any project", said the King, "should be to help hilltribes improve their living standard and to enable them to grow useful crops which will earn them good income. This is humanism. Another purpose, as anybody will agree should be undertaken, as if concerns a very serious problem of narcotic. If we can help hilltribes produce useful crops for more money, they will abandon poppy cultivation. This will enhance our policy of stopping the trading and smoking of opium. And yet there is another important consideration. It is well known that hill farmers employ Slash and burn cultivation, and the forest is destroyed, causing severe damages to our country. If we help them farm in a proper manner, the whole of our country will benefit, because, by giving hilltribes good lives, they will support our policy of soil and forest conservation with long lasting benefit."Credit to HM the King of Thailand.
Exploring Thailand's Wild North
By JOSHUA KURLANTZICK
Until the past decade, in fact, opium trafficking was a major source
of income in the region, and drug runners used to settle disputes
gangland-style. In the 1980's, the feared Burmese-Thai warlord Khun Sa
ruled the world's heroin trade from his jungle headquarters near Chiang
Rai. Today the area is relatively placid and law-abiding - Khun Sa's
old headquarters is now a museum - but its diversity remains.
Friends had urged me to see the Population and Development Association
museum in Chiang Rai, suggesting that it was the best place to start
learning about hill tribes. They were right.
Chiang Rai has a fine concentration of cultural museums. In the
mountains outside the city, near the town of Chiang Saen, a nonprofit
group called the Mae Fah Luang Foundation has opened the Hall of Opium,
presenting the local history of the poppy, including displays of the
most ingenious hiding places for smuggled opium, such as stuffed
animals, and exhibits documenting the 5,000-year history of writings
about opium. In Chiang Rai city, an elderly antiques collector has
opened a small museum dedicated to the Dai, a tribe from which many
northern ethnic groups sprang.
But the Population and Development Association's museum has the most
extensive collection. Alberto de la Paz, one of its directors, told me
that the group works with communities to preserve elements of the
cultures of Akha, Karen, Lisu, Hmong, and other tribes; it collaborates
with tribal leaders to ensure that minority languages are taught and
festivals survive, and to create accurate presentations at the museum.
credit:
http://www.osknetwork.com/modules.php?name...371&popup=1Some of the many solutions from the royal project.
The Doi Tung Development Project is aimed at improving the hill tribes' standard of living through the allocation of residential and agricultural areas so as to provide the hill tribes with permanent residence. Due to the land allocation, the size of each village's residential area is different. "Akha Pa Kluai" village of the Akha tribe is one of the villages in the land allocation project. As the Akha has extended family society, the land allocation clearly affects the types of dwelling as well as land and materials use.Therefore, this study's objective is to look at the development of the types of dwellings and present living conditions, including problems by means of exploratory research.
credit:
http://cuir.car.chula.ac.th/handle/123456789/5538 สวนแม่ฟ้าหลวง ตั้งอยู่บนพื้นที่เดิมของหมู่บ้านอาข่าป่ากล้วย 62 ครอบครัว
ในอดีตหมู่บ้านนี้เป็นเส้นทางผ่านที่สำคัญและเป็นที่พักของกองคาราวานที่ลำเลียงฝิ่น น้ำยาทำเฮโรอีน และอาวุธสงคราม ประกอบกับที่ตั้งมีลักษณะเป็นหุบลึกลงไป บ้านเรือนอยู่ อย่างอัดแอ ไม่สามารถขยาย และดูแลเรื่องความสะอาด ขยะ และน้ำเสียได้
ทางโครงการพัฒนาดอยตุงฯ จึงขอให้หมู่บ้านย้ายไปอยู่ที่ใหม่ห่างจากที่เดิมราว 500เมตร แต่ตั้งอยู่บนเนินเขา กว้างขวาง และสวยงาม เป็นที่พอใจของชาวบ้าน และสร้างสวนไม้ดอกไม้ประดับเมืองหนาวบนพื้นที่หมู่บ้านเดิม เนื้อที่ 25ไร่ ตามพระราชดำริของสมเด็จพระศรีนครินทร์ฯ เพื่อให้คนไทยที่ไม่มีโอกาสไปต่างประเทศได้เห็นไม้ดอกเมืองหวาวที่สวนแห่งนี้ ซึ่งได้รับการดูแลให้สวยงามตลอดทุกวันทั้งปี โดยดอกไม้จะเปลี่ยนแปลงไปในแต่ละฤดูกาล
กลางสวนมีงานประติมากรรม ของ มิเซียม ยิบอินซอย โดยสมเด็จพระบรมราชชนนี พระราชทานชื่อว่าความต่อเนื่อง (continuity) สื่อถึงการทำงานจะสำเร็จได้ ต้องทำอย่างต่อเนื่อง
ไม้ดอก ไม้ประดับที่นำมาตกแต่ง ปลูกและเลี้ยงดูโดยชาวบ้านของโครงการฯ เป็นการสร้างงาน ให้ชาวบ้านมีรายได้ที่ดี สามารถเลี้ยงตัวเองและครอบครัว และยังเกิดเป็นแหล่งท่องเที่ยวที่ สร้างงานในด้านอื่นๆเพิ่มขึ้นอีก
ในปีพุทธศักราช 2536 สวนแม่ฟ้าหลวง
ได้รับรางวัล พาตา โกลด์ อวอร์ด (PATA Gold Award) ประเภทรางวัลการพัฒนาแหล่งท่องเที่ยว จากสมาคมส่งเสริมการท่องเที่ยวเอเชีย-แปซิฟิกcredit:
http://www.chiangraifocus.com/travelView.p...=188&aid=10We are a developing country, and not that rich. We definitely can't please everyone at the same time at this moment,the royal projects are doing their best in researching and solving problems for a better solutions in the future.