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Wife of disappeared Karen activist ‘still waiting for justice’

Porlajee Billy Rakchongcharoen OAG DSI Chaiwat Limlikitaksorn
Pinnapa Prueksapan, wife of missing Karen activist Porlajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen, talks to reporters, with by Surapong Kongjantuk, chairman of the Cross Cultural Foundation, by her side, at the Office of the Attorney-General on Thursday. (Photo: King-oua Laohong)

The wife of Karen activist Porlajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen, a victim of a 2014 forced disappearance who is now believed dead, on Thursday renewed her call for legal action in the long-delayed case.

During a visit to the Office of the Attorney-General Pinnapa Prueksapan also urged the OAG to hasten its handling of the 2011 forceful eviction of Karen villagers from Bang Kloy forest village in Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi.

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