<p>11 activists have been charged with violations of the Emergency Decree for joining a protest organized by the People&rsquo;s Movement for Just Society (P-Move), which addressed land rights and community rights.</p>

<p>Members of the Bang Kloi indigenous Karen community who came to join the protest organized by the People&rsquo;s Movement for Just Society (P-Move) returned home yesterday (3 February 2022) after the government agreed to set up an independent committee to solve community rights issues facing them.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Thailand's park officers arrested four villagers allegedly clearing plots of land in a protected area in northeastern Thailand.</p> <p>According to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawyercenter2014/posts/832537740129415?notif_t=notify_me">Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR)</a>, eight officers from the Royal Forest Department (RFD) of the northeastern province of Chaiyaphum arrested four villagers from Kon San Sub-district while the villagers were clearing vegetation in Kok Yao protected area of the province.</p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-989fc783-5c7a-e91a-7cc0-a37f984ee731">Community rights groups have urged the junta not to ignore community rights and to reconsider their forest protection policies after nearly 1,800 families, most of them in Thailand’s North and Northeast, have been severely affected.</span></p>

<div><span>The military demanded an Isan environmental activist to shut down his personal Facebook and a campaigning Facebook on the controversial Pak Moon Dam and order him to report in. The activists defied, however. &nbsp;</span></div> <p></p>

<p>They're back on the streets again...this time holding "green" flags and "fists" as their symbol. The reborn sections of the Assembly of the Poor and former Yellow Shirts have learned expensive lessons from their share in the color-coded conflict: never forsake you own grievances for some lofty political gains.&nbsp;</p> <p></p>