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UN team to visit victimized Karen Christians in Thailand
Villagers were forced off their ancestral land before a young activist was found murdered
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Musicians play at a commemorative event in Bangkok in 2019 for Porlajee Billy Rakchongcharoen, a young Karen activist who was murdered in 2014. (Photo: UCA News)
Thailand’s government has agreed to allow United Nations inspectors to visit an ethnic Karen Christian village inside Kaeng Krachan National Park following years-long allegations that the indigenous tribespeople have been repeatedly harassed by park officials who want them gone from local forests.
In 2011, the small Karen Christian community were evicted from their village, Bang Kloy, which is inside a protected forest complex, and resettled to a low-lying area.
Mount Shasta Herald
Siskiyou County Undersheriff James Randall said an autopsy revealed nothing suspicious and no signs of foul play in the death of a 55-year-old Mount Shasta woman whose body was found Tuesday on S. Mt. Shasta Boulevard, just north of Highway 89.
The woman was identified as Karen Christian with a general delivery address in Mount Shasta, Randall said Thursday morning. Her body was spotted by a passerby who reported it to authorities.
Randall couldn t yet say how Christian died since the final results of her autopsy are pending a toxicology report, which can take awhile since it s sent to an outside lab that s used by the Department of Justice.
Ghosts Look Over the Shoulders of Myanmar Peace Negotiators
Ghosts Look Over the Shoulders of Myanmar Peace Negotiators
Myanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi signs a guestbook at the Panglong Monument after attending the 70th Union Day celebration in Panglong, Shan State on Feb 12, 2017. / The Irrawaddy
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By Tony Waters 16 January 2021
Peace Studies researcher Elise Boulding wrote that peace, including the type sought today in Myanmar, is focused by a “two hundred year present.” By this she meant that how people think about their values, fears, loyalties and dreams is inherited from the memories of parents and grandparents who recall the emotional events they heard about as children from their elders.