Senior Thai national park official, three others, acquitted in nine-year-old case of missing activist

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BANGKOK (AP): A court in Thailand on Thursday (Sept 28) 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 activist, Porlajee Rakchongcharoen, was last seen in the custody of Kaeng Krachan National Park officials in western Thailand’s Phetchaburi province on April 17, 2014.

Porlajee, better known as Billy, had been leading the local Karen ethnic minority community in a lawsuit against Chaiwat over his efforts to forcibly evict them by burning their homes inside the park - where they had lived for generations - along with their possessions. "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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