On 24 April 2023, the trial of four Kaeng Kachan National Park officials started in Thailand. The four officials are accused of murdering Porlajee “Billy” Rachongcharoen, a Karen Indigenous rights activist. The trial starts nine years after he went missing.
What a sad story! Is everyone crying yet?
Ideology again trumps empathy, compassion and human rights.
Do the perpetrators feel no shame?
Is there a civilization on this planet or not? You decide.
And don’t let your cognitive dissonance segment these issues away from your smug little life.
The pain of these people bear on us all, it is a crime against humanity that is going on there.
The measure of a society is revealed in how the “least” of us are treated.
If they are treated like scum, then we are all scum.