'Encroacher' back from Myanmar to speak
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Kriengkrai Seutrong, who was accused of leading a group of Thais to encroach on Myanmar forestland, said that today he and 100 villagers from Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat and Krabi would explain what happened and who was behind it.
After being released on Friday from a seven-day interrogation to a Thai Army special task force in Ranong, Kriengkrai went straight to Surat Thani. He said he would explain everything today, along with 100 people who were working on rubber plantations on Myanmar territory and weren’t arrested.
Kriengkrai maintained that he wasn’t involved in marijuana growing and war-weapons selling, which were discovered in the area in Myanmar recently. He said such allegations tarnished him and his family’s name.
Myanmar authorities detained the 92 Thai land-encroachment suspects at an army camp in Koh Song.
