Pholachi “Billy” Rakchongcharoen, an ethnic Karen land rights activist, was last seen on April 17, 2014, when he was detained by national park authorities at the Kaeng Krachan National Park in Petchaburi province, south of Bangkok.
DNA taken from Pholachi’s mother showed the bone fragments came from her son, deputy director of the DSI Korawat Panpraphakorn said on Tuesday. Twenty more bone fragments, which have not been tested, have since been discovered nearby, he said. Korawat said that Pholachi was likely killed after he was abducted but the cause of death was not known.
The Karen are an ethnic minority many of whom live in communities in forests of northern and western Thailand, and over the border in neighbouring Myanmar. Many Karen in Thailand are stateless.
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