<p>After years of battle over land rights, an embattled indigenous seafarer community in Phuket has won a lawsuit filed against them by a land development company.</p> <p>On 31 January 2017,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.posttoday.com/local/south/478562">the Provincial Court of Phuket read the verdict</a>&nbsp;on a dispute over the 33 rai plot on Rawai Beach of Phuket between an indigenous seafarer community and Baron World Trade Co, a real estate development company.</p>

<p>A group of men have threatened indigenous sea nomads in southern Thailand with guns in an attempt to force them off disputed land.</p>