A court in Thailand has acquitted four national park employees, including a senior official, of the kidnapping and murder of an Indigenous rights activist who disappeared under suspicious circumstances more than nine years ago
A court in Thailand on Thursday acquitted four national park employees, including a senior official, of the kidnapping and murder of an Indigenous rights activist who disappeared under suspicious circumstances more than nine years ago.
The killing or disappearance of community and environmental activists is a persistent but overlooked problem in Thailand and many developing countries. Porlajee’s is one of 76 cases of enforced disappearances in recent decades in Thailand that the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights last year listed as unresolved.
Chaiwat, who is now director of the Office of National Parks in the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, acknowledged that Porlajee had been detained the day he disappeared for illegally collecting wild honey but said he had been released with a warning before disappearing. “I just want to know the truth, where Billy has been missing. But from 2014 until today, we still don’t have any answer. I don’t know what to believe,” Porlajee’s wife, Phinnapha Phrueksaphan, said after the verdict was issued.
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