Thailand's disappeared Karen activist Billy and the burned village
But after the village was burned, when park authorities moved the community to the outskirts of Kaeng Krachan, things were very different.
"Billy acted as an assistant to the lawyer representing the villagers," Muenoor explains. "He collected evidence for them, spoke to the villagers and found out what happened and what exactly they lost. He took his grandfather to the administrative court so he could sue the national park rangers who burned down their village."The last time Billy was seen alive, he was being arrested for taking wild honey out of the forest.
"I thought he was dead because if he was still alive or in hiding he would have found a way to contact me or his family because that's what he was like - he was a smart guy. He would have found a way to contact me that first day he went missing." But then again, without a body, there was not much anyone could do: no one has ever been brought to justice for making someone disappear, for carrying them away. In fact, the crime of enforced disappearance doesn't exist in Thailand.
"What kind of person could do something like this to another person?" Muenoor asks."It's not human. I was devastated that he had to go through something like that. Whoever did this never thought about Billy's family or how this would affect us. If this had happened to the killer's family, how would he have felt?"In November 2019, the DSI issued an arrest warrant.
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