More than 800 Thai and Karen residents living close to the Salween River in Mae Sariang of Mae Hong Son province and the Ituta refugee camp in Myanmar’s Karen State jointly held a “No-Dam” campaign on Wednesday.

An unknown assailant broke into the house of a resident in Mae Hong Son’s Mae Sariang district and burned his Mitsubishi pickup truck on Sunday morning, following the man’s petition asking the Interior Ministry to investigate a group of “local villagers” who last week called for the transfer of deputy district chief Boonyarit Nippawanij.