Thai land rights campaigners' most powerful weapon? Access to information


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  • Thursday, 14 Jul 2016

Teeranet Chaisuwan (L), a land rights defender, and deputy permanent secretary of the prime minister's office Jirachai Moontongroy (2nd L) lay flowers in front a memorial for four murdered land rights defenders during a government meeting with villagers in Klong Sai Pattana, south of Thailand, July 1, 2016. Picture taken July 1, 2016. REUTERS/Alisa Tang

KLONG SAI PATTANA, Thailand (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Along a mud road deep inside oil palm and rubber plantations in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani, handwritten signs tag grim evidence of a struggle for land that began two decades ago, and then turned violent and deadly.

One sign points to the area illegally used by a palm oil company.

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