Endangered Civilizations
A Double Death
Season 1 Episode 5
January 1, 2018
Driven out of Tibet and the eastern Himalayas, the Akha have fought their way to the extreme north of Thailand and Burma. Hostile to outsiders, the Akha today are the living remnants of a former time, the bygone era of the Chinese Middle Empire. The Akha have a dangerously bad reputation : smuggling, destroying the forest, ignoring frontiers, growing opium.