Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked Khao Laem National Park in Thailand’s western province of Kanchanaburi to put on hold its order for the relatives of five cattlemen, who killed two tigers, to dismantle their lodgings and to move out of the park.

 

NHRC member Wasan Paileeklee said the commission considered a petition today, lodged by the five alleged poachers, who are residents of an ethnic Karen village in Thong Pha Phum district, claiming that the killing of the two tigers in mid-January was intended to protect their cattle and people in the village from tiger attacks. They claimed they ate the tiger meat because they did not want to waste it by throwing it away.

 

The five also claimed that their relatives had nothing to do with the killing of the tigers and should not be evicted.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/khao-laem-national-park-told-to-withhold-eviction-order-against-alleged-poachers-relatives/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-02-03

 

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Petition this. Send them packing!