Thai Police Find Skull, Declare Missing Karen Activist Murdered

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Thai Police Find Skull, Declare Missing Karen Activist Murdered
2019-09-04

Pinapa Prueksawan, widow of activist Porlajee Rakchongcharoen (alias Billy), talks to reporters at her home village in Phetchaburi, Thailand, about efforts to reopen the investigation into her husband’s 2014 disappearance, March 31, 2016.
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A Karen land-rights activist who went missing in 2014 was murdered, Thai police said Tuesday, after divers recovered a portion of his burned skull from a reservoir near his home.

Porlajee Rakchongcharoen (also known as “Billy”), was last seen on April 17, 2014, near Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi province, 100 miles (160 km) south of Bangkok. He was 30 when he disappeared in suspicious circumstances.

“He was murdered,” police Lt. Col. Korawat Parnprapakorn, deputy director of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), told reporters Tuesday.

Read more at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/activist-murder-09042019065456.html

Asia has a whole lot of "hill tribes", the Hmong have gotten attention and come to America but actually there are many, maybe hundreds or even thousands of these tribes in Asia.

I once went to some sort of event at an Episcopal/Presbyterian church, maybe another denomination but it was for Easter and there was this group of people from Asia there and yes, they were the Karen people, they were Christians. I don't know there whole story, if they are persecuted or heavily persecuted in Thailand where this story is from.

So, something to keep track of for those interested.

[PeteS in CA]

The Karens seem to be mostly in Myanmar, but along the border of and into Thailand, on the northern Malay Peninsula. The Karens have been heavily persecuted in Myanmar, because they are not ethnic Burmese and many are not Buddhist, but it sounds like they are not faring well in Thailand, either.