 Hello and welcome to People's Dispatch and NewsClick. Today we are in the southern Thailand. The province is known as Surathaneem. We are with a radical and progressive movement called the Southern Paisen Federation of Thailand. And we are in their base, one of the five bases. This community is known as Clang Sai Patana. This is the community where we are standing in. On my left is the border of the land occupation by SPFT. And beyond that is the palm plantation. Beyond this border is where the land mafias exist. And we are standing at one of the places where the community faces high level of threat from the land mafia. And in this community, almost four members of the SPFT has been assassinated till now. To talk more about the SPFT movement and about the community, we have Thananate from the SPFT. And we have Miao, who is our translator. Can you tell us more about the land occupation movement which started here in 2010? Can you tell us more about the land occupation which started here in 2003? In 2003? Well, during that time, the land occupation started here in 2006. But in 2003, the local government, especially in the region of Clang Sai, was very strong. Because there was a group of villagers and they came to use the land in 120 villages. But during that time, the land occupation was to collect oil and oil. So the land occupation was not allowed to live in the land. There was a conflict. At that time, the land occupation was in the development system. Only one person was left. This was the situation. We tried to make a plan to ensure that the land occupation was taken care of with the help of the local government and the land occupation to provide the land to the farmers in the region of Clang Sai. But at that time, the local government was not able to provide the land occupation as much as possible because of the oil occupation and the construction of the land in the region of Clang Sai. The land occupation was not allowed to live in the land in the region of Clang Sai. The land occupation was not allowed to live in the land at that time. In the land of the local government, there were only five people. At that time, the land occupation was to be taken care of with the help of the local government to provide the land to the farmers. The land occupation was not allowed to live in the land. So the land occupation movement in this area has been ongoing struggles since 2003. The occupants have been fighting back and forth with the local land mafia who have threatened us with firearms, gunshots, and also from time to time, they have destroyed the community's structure. Before 2010, we had a temporary structure like the tashets, rubes, chests, and stuff. But the land mafia and their workmen prevented us from establishing a permanent structure. They forbidden the transportation of durable material to build our own house. At that time, they also still continue to harvest their oil palms produced. So it is very difficult for the villager to actually establish the community here because we don't have our own plantation and the community has been invaded back and forth by the land mafia's people to harvest their produce. And also we don't have enough people. So at that time we still have 120 people, but still because of the extreme threat that we have, we have to rely on other two communities within our network to help stand guard because the situation during 2010 is quite intense. There was one of the members who has been assassinated in the community from the stand men. So second question regarding the demands of the movement. What are the major demands of the movement of SPF2? We are trying to establish the community here. It is possible but it is also possible that those who have the right will have to stay in the city for a long time. So we think that it is not only difficult to establish a community in the city and the surrounding areas of the city. If you have the right then you can join the community and stay in the city. But we see that you have not done that. The last one is to come in and set up a community for the movement that has the right to stay in the city. The goal is to initiate the land reform movement in Thailand especially under the government's concession. With the contract have expired this plan should be returned to the land reform authority and be distributed to the landless people and small scale farmers. With this proposal we set up this five community as a demonstration plot and demonstration communities so that the land reform authority in Thailand they can use this model however the land reform authority in Thailand to give this land that we have struggled away to the local president they want to give the land to the people who have been registered as the resident in this province or this village despite we would like to promote the large scale land reform movement in the southern region of Thailand and probably we also would like to advocate this policy and I also think that when the local people suffer from the landlessness problems they should gather themselves organize a group and demand the land from either the land reform department or the unproductive land whose concession contract have long been expired but it seems that they didn't want to do so and we also would like to advocate our members landless people and small scale farmers from other provinces who also suffer the problem of lack of access to the land to have their own land in this area and we also would like to promote the policy chain nationally to advocate new law and policy for land reform for landless people talking about the policy Thailand is currently under the military rule NCPO is currently ruling the country things are difficult and also the election are being postponed so what are the apart from the demand for land reform what is the political strategy the SPFT every day we live in the southern part of Thailand there are many hospitals and I would like to say apart from the demand for land reform and the SPFT what is the demand for land reform what are the other reasons first of all the health the government the government the government the government the government the government the government the government the government the government the government the government the government the government the government the government the government the government the government the government Our political demand is that we think that the military should return to the duty of the military. Our political demand is that we think that the military should return to their duty as professional military and allow the elected democratic transparent government to function because you know under the democratic government and people have the power to inspect corruption and there would be more transparency to investigate the matters that are relevant to their life. And the fact that we have the military government make it more difficult for people to participate in kind of like scrutinizing the government's policy as well as there is lack of overall transparency in terms of the policies as well as the excessive use of power under Article 44 of the former constitution, the interim constitution that give the military's pervasive power to manage the land in this country whether like the special economic zone which allow the land under the land reform program to be converted into industrial zone or like extractive industry or like Pytholia mining and other business rather than returning this land to its original purpose for like land reform for the people and this make it even more difficult for the people to actually intervene and investigate the policy from the government. So our political demand of SPFT has always been we demand a democratic country, we demand a democratically elected government and this has been our demand even before the current coup data. The last question is across the world there are land struggle for dignity, struggle for land are going on. What is your message as one of the member of land movement in Thailand to the movement across the world? We are a part of the struggle for the dignity of the land in the world, the dignity of the land is a decision that helps the development of the human being, I would like to ask what is the responsibility of the land that is currently in the struggle for the dignity of the land? The struggle for the dignity of the land is the same as the struggle for the land of影床, this is a struggle in this struggle to make the indipation in the fall the Social Security issue of the Governmentuster which we are trying to make from hand also trying to give for the development of a private land so that the We won't be able to get out of the plane, but we have to get out of the plane by the time we get to the airport. Therefore, we have to start from many different things. We have to fight against our own children. The importance of having a place to stay. We have to be strong enough to fight. We have to fight against our own children. We have to change the way we fight against our own children. We have to protect our children from the people who are in the future. They also have the right to own the land. They have their own dignity. They have their own production capacity. They can improve themselves. This has been a long-term struggle for the people in the land since the beginning. In the Asian context, the government tries to grab the land from the people, the smart-scale farmers, through the economic projects, for example, the special economic zone or export corridor, etc. In order to take away the land from the smart-scale farmers and conglomerate the land to the capitalists, I insist that our brothers and sisters who are farmers should protect their land despite the threat of being landless. It's not with you yet. I think that you are still safe. You have to maintain land sovereignty and seed sovereignty because if you cannot protect your land or you cannot protect your seed, one day the capitalists will use the mechanism to take away your land to the lack of seed sovereignty as well as the modern agriculture. It is important that you should give political education to the second-liners and the younger generation to raise their awareness about your struggle and also about the political situation of the tactics that capitalists can use to take away your land. Otherwise, I think that would be difficult for the people to keep the land with them and pass on this land to the next generation. Thank you for speaking to people just by chance.