“THAILAND: Intimidation and threatened eviction in southern Thailand”, 2 October 2014

…The Asian Human Rights Commission is concerned that the in the general atmosphere of lawlessness created by the…coup by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), very few avenues of protection remain for the human rights defenders and other community members in Klong Sai Pattana. The Klong Sai Pattana community…[land] has been a focus of contention between villagers and agribusiness capitalists…For over thirty years, the area of the community has been illegally occupied by oil palm plantations who have challenged the right of the villagers to remain in the area. …Concomitant with the legal struggles, since 2009, extrajudicial violence has been used in an attempt to evict the villagers from the area…Since mid-August 2014, the intimidation and violence against members of the Klong Sai Pattana community has again intensified…At present, the villagers face a constant threat of violence and forced eviction from land for which they have a legal right to occupy. They are under threat from a combination of state security forces and private capital…