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Needless forest evictions persist
Oped, Editorial, Published on 21/01/2024
» Amid the biological richness of Kaeng Krachan National Park, while forest authorities celebrate the importance of wildlife, a troubling practice of forcibly evicting native forest dwellers in the name of wildlife and biodiversity protection continues unabated. This violation of the forest dweller's rights must cease.
PM's co-existence plan under fire
News, Editorial, Published on 05/02/2023
» Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha in his capacity as chairman of the National Security Council recently launched an action plan to encourage peaceful coexistence in Thailand.
Don’t rush sub deal
Oped, Editorial, Published on 04/02/2023
» As the current government’s term will soon end, it’s bewildering to see how the Royal Thai Navy (RTN) is apparently speeding up its decision-making process on whether it will continue with a highly questionable submarine procurement from China.
Indigenous rights deserve a break
News, Editorial, Published on 20/02/2022
» Exactly a year ago this month, a group of indigenous Karen forest dwellers left their resettlement village in Kaeng Krachan National Park to go back to Bang Kloy Bon and Jai Paen Din, their ancestral homes deep in the jungle. They were immediately arrested and sent to jail.
Avert violence at Bang Kloi
News, Editorial, Published on 23/02/2021
» Violence is looming at Kaeng Krachan National Park. Despite the government's promises to indigenous forest dwellers to pull out armed personnel from the park, new fears and uncertainties have emerged, along with fresh signs of an imminent crackdown by forest officials.
Karen need govt support
News, Editorial, Published on 16/02/2021
» As a working group on the plight of Bang Kloi ethnic Karen villagers evicted from their ancestral land in Kaeng Krachan National Park prepares to start its mission, the Prayut Chan-o-cha government must ensure that all threats and intimidation by state authorities cease and a solution to this long-standing problem is found that is both just and fair.
Karen woes unresolved
News, Editorial, Published on 19/01/2021
» For years, state authorities have claimed that the Karen issue in the Kaeng Krachan National Park has been settled -- that the indigenous forest dwellers who were evicted from their ancestral land in Bang Kloy village to a resettlement site down the hill have accepted their new life and are happy, while the registration of the forest complex as a Unesco World Heritage Site is well underway.
Fate lies with 'big brother'
News, Editorial, Published on 13/07/2020
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has admitted that a cabinet reshuffle could happen any time from now following a power change in the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP).
Governing top down
News, Editorial, Published on 31/01/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha first uttered the phrase regarding "Thai-ness" less than three weeks ago. In that short period of time, his programme called Thai Niyom has not just come into being. Now the Thai-ness project is already fully organised, completely staffed and apparently working, down to the village level. It even has acquired an adjective and now is "sustainable Thai-ness" or Thai Niyom Yangyuen. For these reasons, critics already are attacking it as yet another facet of the military's plan for an indefinite stay in power.