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Tit-for-tat in Khao Yai National Park land dispute

In an apparent tit-for-tat, the Agricultural Land Reform Office (ALRO) has decided to take legal action against Chaiwat Limlikhitaksorn, chief of the National Parks Office at the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, for allegedly removing demarcation stones from Sor Por Kor land around Khao Yai National Park.

On Sunday, ALRO Secretary-General Winarote Sapsongsuk ordered the acting chief of Nakhon Ratchasima ALRO office to file a complaint with the Mu Si police, in Pak Chong district, against Chaiwat and his men for violating Sections 363 and 334 of the Criminal Code, over their arbitrary removal of 27 Sor Por Kor demarcation stones from land claimed by ALRO, in Village 10 of Mu Si sub-district on February 13th.

ALRO claims that the disputed land is part of the 5,423.36 hectares of the Sor Por Kor (land reform) area, which is outside the boundary of the…

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