Two with Thai army links found guilty of attack on gold mine protest

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre

World
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
3:32 PM MYT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai court on Tuesday found two men guilty of attacking villagers and human rights activists protesting against a gold mine in what an international rights watchdog called an important verdict for people standing up for communities.

About 150 men, many of them masked and armed, attacked villagers and rights workers blocking a road to a gold mine in the northeastern province of Loei on May 15, 2014.

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