By Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) |
<p>BANGKOK (11 March 2015) -The United Nations Human Rights Office for South East Asia (OHCHR) is concerned that the rights of poor communities in maintaining access to land and livelihood are not being upheld and urges the Government to comply with its international human rights obligations in pursuing its land polices.</p>
By Human Rights Watch |
<p>(New York, February 14, 2015) – Thai authorities should immediately investigate the killing of a land rights activist in southern <a href="http://hrw.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d8%2c5195-%3eLCE593719%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4432086&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=72612&Action=Follow+Link">Thailand</a>, Human Rights Watch said today.<br /></p>
By UN Human Rights Office for South East Asia |
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<div>BANGKOK (13 FEBRUARY 2015) - The United Nations Human Rights Office for South East Asia (OHCHR) urges the Government to promptly investigate the killing of a land rights activist in the south of Thailand and increase security measures for the members of his community.</div>
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<p>One of the community leaders of an embattled farmers’ community in southern Thailand has been assassinated. He is the fourth villager assassinated during the on-going dispute with a palm oil company.</p>
<p>Chai Bunthonglek, a 61-year-old member of the Southern Peasant’s Federation of Thailand (SPFT) from Khlong Sai Pattana Community in Chai Buri District of southern Surat Thani Province, was assassinated by two gunmen around 6 pm on Thursday. Chai was shot dead at his house by a .357 gun.</p>
<p>He is the fourth member of the SPFT from Khlong Sai Pattana Community to be shot dead.</p>
<p>The military summoned a southern land rights activist for three days of detention after he led a group of local farmers to fight for their land rights.</p>
<p>The military on Sunday issued a letter summoning Peerat Bunrit, one of the leaders of Southern Peasants' Federation of Thailand (SPFT) from Chai Buri District of Surat Thani Province in southern Thailand, to a so-called ‘attitude adjustment camp’ for three days.</p>
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<div>A Thai man said he was beaten up by police after he turned down a police offer of reward money if he agreed to be a witness in the murder case of two British tourists in Thailand’s tourist island of Koh Tao, southern Surat Thani Province, according to <a href="http://www.manager.co.th/South/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9570000112441">ASTV-Manager online.</a></div>
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<div>The report says Pornprasit Sukdam, 37, on Tuesday complained to Kobchai Saowalak, kamnan (subdistrict head) of Koh Tao Subdistrict, and asked for protection. </div>
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