Senior Thai national park official, three others, acquitted in nine-year-old case of missing activist

Chaiwat Limlikitaksorn arrivings at The Central Criminal Court of Corruption and Misconduct in Bangkok to hear his verdict in his trial on Sept. 28, 2023.- AP

BANGKOK (AP): A court in Thailand on Thursday (Sept 28) acquitted four national park employees, including a senior official, of the kidnapping and murder of an Indigenous rights activist who disappeared under suspicious circumstances more than nine years ago.

The activist, Porlajee Rakchongcharoen, was last seen in the custody of Kaeng Krachan National Park officials in western Thailand’s Phetchaburi province on April 17, 2014.