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Authorities to charge park official in Karen activist Billy's murder

FILE PHOTO: A merit-making ceremony is performed for murdered Karen activist Porlajee ‘Billy’ Rakchongcharoen inside Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi on Jan 28, 2020. (Photo: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul)

Four people suspected of murdering an environmental activist who disappeared eight years ago are set to be indicted, officials said Monday, reversing a controversial decision to dismiss charges two years ago.

Ethnic Karen leader Porlajee ‘Rakchongcharoen, better known as Billy, went missing in April 2014 while working on a lawsuit accusing officials of destroying minorities' homes in Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi province.

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