Ranong authorities asked to mark border
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A group of people who are relatives of the 92 Thai nationals who were apprehended in Myanmar last year for alleged trespassing submitted a request to Ranong provincial authorities yesterday asking for officials to help redo the border demarcation in a sec
The group, travelling in a 30-vehicle convoy, submitted a written request with a senior official. In the request, the group called on Ranong Governor Cherdsak Jampathes to push for a provincial committee to be set up to work further on the demarcation line and retrieve all belongings of the 92 Thais that were seized by the Myanmar authorities.
Jeerawat sae-Ueng, one of the group’s leaders, said he believed that the 44-square-kilometre area where the 92 Thais had settled and taken up farming before being apprehended by Myanmar troops was actually Thai territory.
