Bounty on Rights Defenders Exposing EEC Industrial Waste
Matichon•Politics•
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Key Quotes
"If the network has to fight alone, losses will occur, so I call upon the National Human Rights Commission and relevant agencies to provide close protection for the leaders."
หากเครือข่ายต้องต่อสู้เพียงลำพัง ความสูญเสียย่อมเกิดขึ้น จึงเรียกร้องให้คณะกรรมการสิทธิมนุษยชนแห่งชาติ (กสม.) และหน่วยงานที่เกี่ยวข้อง ลงพื้นที่ประกบติดเพื่อคุ้มครองแกนนำ
Key Entities
Organization
Coordinating Committee of Non-Governmental Organizations(คณะกรรมการประสานงานองค์กรพัฒนาเอกชน (กป.อพช.))
An organization that held a national press conference to expose the crisis in the EEC area.
Environmental Law Foundation (EnLAW)(มูลนิธินิติธรรมสิ่งแวดล้อม (EnLAW))
A human rights organization participating in the press conference to address environmental crimes.
Protection International (PI)
An organization that analyzed the structural violence and government failure regarding rights defenders.
Ecological Restoration Foundation (EARTH)(มูลนิธิบูรณะนิเวศ (EARTH))
An organization that provided data on the economic damages of industrial waste dumping.
Prachin Strong Network(เครือข่ายปราจีนเข้มแข็ง)
A local network participating in the press conference to highlight issues in the East.
The body requested to provide close protection for the targeted activists.
Win Process(วิน โพรเสส)
A company cited for evidence of paying bribes to officials in the justice process.
The previous military junta whose policies and orders are cited as the root cause of the current crisis.
Volunteer Spirit Foundation(มูลนิธิอาสาสมัครเพื่อสังคม)
The venue in Bangkok where the national press conference was held.
A government agency criticized for lacking understanding of the context of rights defenders.
Policy
Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC)(เขตพัฒนาพิเศษภาคตะวันออก (EEC))
A special economic zone where illegal industrial waste dumping and rights defender harassment have occurred.
Person
Oracha Chandech(อรชา จันทร์เดช)
A representative of Eastern human rights defenders who revealed details of the assassination bounty.
Sumeth Rianphongnam(สุเมธ เหรียญพงษ์นาม)
An Eastern rights defender who has been targeted by threats and a 2 million baht bounty.
Sunthorn Komkai(สุนทร คมคาย)
A rights defender targeted for assassination along with Sumeth Rianphongnam.
Penchom Saetang(เพ็ญโฉม แซ่ตั้ง)
Director of the Ecological Restoration Foundation (EARTH).
Sutthikiat Kochaso(สุทธิเกียรติ คชโส)
A member of the Environmental Law Foundation explaining the systemic use of law to obstruct rights.
Pranom Somwong(ปรานม สมวงศ์)
A representative from Protection International (PI) who critiqued the Thai government's performance.
Lertsak Khamkongsak(เลิศศักดิ์ คำคงศักดิ์)
Chairman of the Coordinating Committee of Non-Governmental Organizations.
Law
NCPO Head Order 4/2016(คำสั่งหัวหน้า คสช.ที่ 4/2559)
An order that unlocked urban planning and environmental rules, facilitating toxic waste industries.