COMMENTARY
If you and your children had to suffer from lead poisoning and the court ordered the culprit to compensate you with only 230,000 baht for the crime, would you be happy about it?
If even after 14 years since the closure of the lead mine that poisoned your creek and destroyed your life, the 10,000 tonnes of lead residue still made your only source of potable water deadly, and you and your children were still denied treatment for lead poisoning, would you be happy about it?
These are not hypothetical questions for the Karen forest dwellers at Klity Lang village in Kanchanaburi province. It is their real-life horror. It is why the Klity Karen villagers were at a loss for words when asked by the media if they were satisfied with the Appeal Court's verdict on Tuesday, which still denies them what they want most _ a clean-up of the 19-km-long Klity creek, the only waterway in this village of some 80 indigenous families.
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- Writer: Sanitsuda Ekachai
- Position: Assistant Editor
