Locals petition PM over land policy

Chiang Mai: Due to the harm it causes to their way of life, a group of Karen villagers in the Doi Saket city petitioned the government yesterday.

During Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin’s visit to the North yesterday, residents of Ban Huay Pha Tuen and Yom Ban Doi in tambon Pa Miang submitted their complaint.

The team requests that the National Land Policy Board’s forest land management plan be repealed and that a 2010 regulation be put into effect that completely recognizes the rights of ethnic groups in Thailand.