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Pimpaka Towira

The Purple Kingdom

    A tribal woman of the suppressed Karen mountain people is looking for her disappeared husband

    RELEASE

    2016-01-01

    BUGET

    N/A

    LENGTH

    31 min

    Description

    Inspired by the case of enforced disappearance of an ethnic Karen activist Porlajee Rakchongcharoen (a.k.a. Billy) who went missing in Thailand near Kaeng Krachan National Park in Petchaburi province, 100 miles (161 km) south of Bangkok. Park authorities arrested the Karen activist on April 17, 2014 for possessing a wild honeycomb and six bottles of wild honey but released him after giving a warning. He disappeared shortly afterward.