<p>The Karen tribes living in protected areas and national parks of western Thailand are worried about losing their livelihoods and being sidelined when the areas are declared a UNESCO natural world heritage site.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The Thai Police pressed charge against civil servants suspected of taking parts in the unlawful detention of the disappeared Karen activist Billy while Billy’s wife pressed the Thai authorities to investigate the allegedly unlawful detention prior to his disappearance.</p>

<div>Six months after activist Pholachi Rakchongcharoen, also known as “Billy”, is believed to have been the victim of enforced disappearance in Kaengkrachan National Park, western Thailand, Amnesty International renews calls on authorities to establish the truth about his fate and whereabouts as a matter of urgency.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The organization also urges authorities to ensure all necessary measures are taken to ensure anyone suspected of responsibility for his suspected enforced disappearance is brought to justice.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>It is feared that Billy, 30, a Kare </div>

<p dir="ltr">After being threatened by the junta’s policy to reclaim National Park lands, Karen villagers who have been living in the forest for generations filed a complaint to the authorities to stop confiscating their land. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p>Approximately 60 Karen tribe representatives from Mae Hong Son, the mountainous northern province, on Tuesday submitted a complaint to the Damrongtham Centre, an agency established by the Ministry of Interior to accept complaints, in Mae Hong Son provincial&nbsp;hall&nbsp;to request the junta to revise its forest protection policy.</p>

<p align="center">&nbsp;</p> <p>On 22 September 2014, Phetchaburi Provincial Court accepted an appeal request on the unlawful detention of “Billy”, Porlajee Rakchongcharoen for further appellate procedures.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://news.thaipbs.or.th/sites/default/files/news21042014/242653-imagepng-374778.png" /></p>

<p>MAE SOT, Thailand &ndash; More than 200 refugees crossed into Thailand over the weekend after clashes between Burmese troops and a faction of a Karen armed group broke out anew on November 27.</p>

<p>After they heard from rangers guarding the Nong Bua temporary shelter that refugees would be relocated to another temporary shelter at Usutha on 8 March, 29 refugee families have fled the shelter.</p>

<p><strong>To the Thai people, via Cross-border News Agency,</strong></p> <p>Since 24/01/10 that the Cross-border News Agency started to circulate information relating to the coerced repatriation of Karen refugees in Nong Bua and Usu Tha temporary shelter on the Thai-Burma border to the Thai public, our stories have been discussed more in Thai media. &nbsp;From news and reports being monitored, we found that in fact, the Thai PM and authorities including Thai military have the very same stand with us; that is 'refugees will be allowed in Thailand when there are still threats in their homeland. &nbsp;When the situation is better, they must go back.'</p>

<p>&lsquo;They say we go, we have to go. &nbsp;They say we stay, we have to stay, whether here, in Loepohoe or in Mae La (refugee camp).&rsquo; &nbsp;This is what Nomaele told me last September.</p> <p>Nomaele is a plump woman, aged beyond her years by hard work. &nbsp;Every time we met I mistakenly called her &lsquo;auntie&rsquo; although she is only 35. &nbsp;Her family and 2 others, 12 people in all, were sent across the Moei River to her home in Loepohoe at 8 in the morning of 5 February.</p>

<p>Thai police and soldiers conducted a surprise raid on the Karen&nbsp;Information Centre (KIC) based in the Thai border town of Mae Sot&nbsp;on 4 February 2010.</p>

<p>(February 5th, 2010)&nbsp;KWO is again very concerned about the forced repatriation done by the Thai authority in Nong Bua refugee camp. 3 families with a total of 13 people, 9 of them are women and the rest are children, including 9 month old breastfeeding baby were forced to go back to Burma today.</p>