Thailand’s cabinet Tuesday approved, in principle, P-move activists and civic groups’ 15-point demand for mechanisms to ensure the basic rights of ethnic minorities to land settlement, community land title deeds and settlement of land disputes with the State Railway of Thailand and with Ban Bang Kloi land in Kaeng Krachan national park.

 

P-move demonstrators have been protesting in Bangkok for weeks, to press their demands, and have organized protest marches to Government House on several occasions, but without success until now.

 

They marched to Government House again today, determined to keep pressure on the government. At about 2pm, the protesters removed the razor wire and barricade erected in front of Government House and staged a sit-down protest in front of a police cordon.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/cabinet-agrees-in-principle-to-p-moves-demand-for-land-rights/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-02-02

 

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And yet students get shot at, water cannon (with chemicals) and gaoled?

I suppose that fear is a powerful driver.