Hilltribes plan city protest

  • 23/06/1998

Northern hilltribes people plan to converge in Bangkok to block aresolution to evict them from national forests, while their opponents have threatened to drum up support for the prime minister's ouster ifthe cabinet fails to endorse the resolution.If endorsed, it would effectively repeal three resolutions of the previous Chavalit Yongchaiyudh cabinet which permit landless people, including the northern hilltribes, to continue living in national forests pending verification of their land right claims.