The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday December 18th, 2021 – International Migrants Day
The other Thai protests – Community resistance to the proposed Chana Industrial Estate by Murray Hunter
Thirty-seven elderly Thai villagers from Chana in Songkhla province, on 6th December were arrested in front of government house Bangkok for peacefully protesting against the proposed development of the Chana industrial estate. They were held in custody for a day and charged under the emergency regulations. After outcry from activists, academics and the National Human Rights Commission, they were released the next day without bail. Critics and the local media claimed the arrests by police under prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha’s orders was a grave miscalculation, as the villagers were both peaceful and lawful under the constitution.
The protest was led by local residents of Natub, Sakom, and Thaling Chan sub-districts of Chana where 30,000 people reside and primarily earn a living through fishing and small holder agriculture. They are members of the Chana Rak Thin or Love Chana Network who requested Prayuth honour an MOU the government had signed with the residents last year to undertaken an environmental impact assessment and cease preliminary work at the project site.
Prayuth had earlier torn up the MOU signed with the villagers which agreed to the environmental assessment.
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“It’s All Technique” #poem #haiku by Saloni Kaul
“Dreams flower, reach fruition.
Heights arrived, things ease.
Poem’s prime tension-release!”
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Worming 21#24 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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