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Akha People (Thailand)

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by Jaume Ollé, who also designed the flag

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Thailand

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From the Akha Heritage Foundation website:

Villages of these colourful people are to be found in the mountains of China, Laos, Myanmar (Burma) and northern Thailand. There are approximately 20,000 Akha living in Thailand's northern provinces of Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai at high altitudes. This tribe originate[s] in Tibet.

Santiago Dotor, 25 January 2001

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I looked at your flag site and see that you don't have a flag for the Akha people and probably not for many of the other hill tribes and ethnic groups either. There are a score of them. (...) There are many Akha flags used in the fight for Akha people to retain their land in the face of forestry plantations. (...) I just made a cloth flag, the first one, of the attached style [qv. image above], the only difference is that the star is a Zion star, not a five point [one]. Also the gold stripes are equal in size to the black ones.

Matthew McDaniel (of the Akha Heritage Foundation), 7 and 9 January 2000

The designer [of the Akha flag] is well known, Jaume Ollé with the collaboration of Matthew McDaniel from the Akha found