Police Blamed For Using Force On Land Protesters

[Flashermac]

SOME 100 people who had settled on an oil-palm plantation, rallied outside Krabi City Hall yesterday to condemn the police and related officials for using excessive force to disperse their rally on Sunday.

 

The group also called for Krabi Governor Prasit Osathanont to launch an investigation and mete out punishment to those behind the incident on the Southern Sea Board Road, in which a protester reportedly sustained a serious gunshot wound and 50 others were slightly injured.

 

The group's key member Jakpong Chusri, 50, said the crackdown on the protesters - led by police, forestry officials and security volunteers - was to push these people out of the oil-palm plantation.

 

He said people had only taken the plot over in July last year after Univanich Palm Oil's concession licence expired.

 

This move was part of a demand for the government to allocate land to the poor under a 2003 Cabinet resolution.

 

 

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