Women bear highest cost of injustice
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Pianporn Deetes Thailand and Myanmar Campaigns Director of International Rivers
published : 8 Mar 2021 at 04:30
6 Ah Chai holds a sign demanding a free-flowing Salween River and opposing military plans for a dam as she joins the anti-coup protest in Yangon. Southeast Asia Program of International Rivers
Soithip, an ethnic Karen-Thai woman from Bang Kloi in the Kaeng Krachan Forest, was among 22 villagers who were rounded up last Friday by state authorities and put behind bars at the Phetchaburi Provincial Prison. Returning to their ancestral land in the forest is a crime in the eye of the state.
DNP surveys growing Karen population
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Department fears more park encroachment
published : 7 Mar 2021 at 06:00
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The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plantation (DNP) has begun verifying the number of Karen people living in the Bang Kloi community in the Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi.
The department ordered a committee to run a verification process.
This comes after an unusual increase of occupants in the forest was detected by officials. It is possible that ethnic Karen people are expanding their farms to over 1,100 rai of forest land around the community, they say.
Prakit Vongsrivattanakul, the deputy chief of the department, said the DNP is working with stakeholders to determine who are the members of the original families that settled in Bang Kloi.
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Chaiwat hits back at PACC over Kaeng Krachan burning
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Former park chief says anti-graft agency has never checked the facts on the ground
published : 26 Feb 2021 at 18:57
21 Former Kaeng Krachan National Park chief Chaiwat Limlikit-aksorn says the PACC may have a hidden motive for trying to force him out of the civil service. (Bangkok Post file photo)
A former Kaeng Krachan National Park chief has broken his silence after the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) moved to ban him from the civil service for allegedly leading other officials to burn the houses of Karen villagers a decade ago.
Chaiwat Limlikit-aksorn on Friday wrote an open letter denying the allegation and accusing the anti-graft agency for senior civil servants of making the decision based purely on paper evidence without going out to check facts on the ground.
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