Hundreds of protesters have been demonstrating in front of Government House since October 3, calling on the new administration to address 10 demands to improve the lives of marginalized groups in Thailand.
“If our lives were not so difficult, we would not be here,” said Thavorn Thanasing, 70. “We are prey to hordes of mosquitoes, and when it rains heavily at night, we are not able to sleep. Our makeshift canvas roof leaks in several places.”
Along with the 500 or so other protesters, Thavorn is a member the People’s Movement for a Just Society (P-move), which represents landless farmers, stateless persons, slum dwellers, and other struggling communities who lack any voice in Thailand.
The elderly woman says the government seized her family’s 29-rai plot of land in Yasothon’s Loeng Nok Tha district in 1998.
“My grandpa had lived and worked on the plot since 1857. How…
