Save Chana: Chana Rak Thin Met Police Today

On January 25, the Chana Rak Thin group traveled from Songkhla’s Chana District to Bangkok to report and prosecute the issue of arrests that occurred on December 6, 2021, for some of the group members who were protesting against the Chana Industrial Estate project.

The group demanded a strategic environment assessment (SEA) for the project and to delay its implementation since, according to them, it will devastate the environment and the local fishing industry.

However, it was dissolved by the government and arrested and prosecuted 38 people.

By January 26, at 1:00 p.m., the Chana Rak Thin network of 38 people reported to the police station at Dusit district, Bangkok.

According to the reporter, the Chana Rak Thin Network has made an announcement as follows:

“The Chana Rak Thin Network has stood up for the community, resources and the environment for more than 30 years. We have been acting through government policies ranging from commercial fishing boats, trawlers, trawlers and an anchovy’s boat that has come to destroy marine life until they have to migrate to find food in foreign countries because most of the aquatic life was captured and destroyed Soldiers drill artillery on a fish house built by the community for the animals to rest.”

“We went and asked to meet and negotiate since the Prime Minister Chuan Thaksin to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. We have been charged and prosecuted countless times.”

“We keep fighting Khairiyah and our children are now in Bangkok for the third generation, a long-standing battle that reflects how every government is a destroyer of communities and the environment just for the benefit of the capital group and all their friends.”

“Khairiyah travels to Bangkok centralized city issue a policy to push the pollution industrial estate project to claim the promise that the government has promised to the people, the people will begin to listen to the people’s voices, listen to the information and reasons of the brothers and sisters. Previously, an MOU was made with government representatives. However, the government is lying with the project going forward. Khairiyah volunteered to claim the government’s promise to the Jana community, but was ignored.”

“She spends time talking to various networking groups in Bangkok to be a voice on behalf of the people which is the only way she can do it. So, we want to say that getting up makes a sound, exercise the right to defend the homeland the integration of the ChanaRakThin network where we are committed to protecting resources and environment. It is the only way for communities and people like us to survive this economic, social and epidemic crisis.”

Whether governments, capitalists, politicians share their powers and laws to slander us, we will fight and protect our resources, environment, community until we have the right to shape our own future.”

Source: Seu Theoun Khao (สื่อเถือนข่าว)