OPINION

Lawsuits aggravate forest poor's plight

News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/07/2018

» The polluters must pay. Most definitely. But when state authorities encroach on indigenous peoples' customary land, send them to jail for living in "protected" forest and -- on top of that -- demand exorbitant compensation for causing global warming, this is not the "polluters pay" policy. This is oppression beyond being unjust. It's pure malice.