Reference : MM-1-28-5

Name of creator(s) : Michael Moerman

Scope and content : December 4, 1979 Chiang Kham. A priest related that those who graduated from higher education would not do any manual labor - if they could not find a good job, they might become gangsters or drug-addicted in the city or communists into the wild. Whatever their parents worked, their child might worked similarly. The Den Chai village chief related that if the state aided workers in agriculture, it would become the wealth of the country. The road to Nan was not safe and the villagers hired Ho soldiers [Yunnanese soldiers] for protection. Quinine for migrants was traded in the market, since the outbreak of malaria. Vitamin deficiencies of the people had increased, and TB remained a major problem. Leprosy was back. Officials recommended that people had to keep quiet about problems with land tenure, otherwise they could be shot. For example Hmong had been shot and killed in disputes over land for opium, payment for bribery, or accusations of being a Communist.

Extent and medium : Punch card