Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha says outsiders are masterminding the Bang Kloi Karen villagers movement.
Gen Prayut made the remark on Wednesday after earlier insisting that villagers were not allowed to enter Jai Paen Din in Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi province since the area was part of the national park.
The court had prohibited them from living there and the government had found new land where they could live, he said.
The Bang Kloi villagers on Tuesday returned to Government House after government officials prohibited them from entering Jai Paen Din, a forest deep in the national park.
However, they say Jai Paen Din had been their ancestral land…
