I visited my IDPs friends in Sunchareun village. It is a case study of a protection from displacement.
As there are many restricttions in the Laws and regulations on land and forest, many ethnic highlander villages are likely to be relocated down. Sunchareun is one among them.
The village used to be an outstanding of forest reservation both at thelocal level and national level. But with the stream of "capitalism" and "development", a cash crop was introduced to the villgers. Maize plantation becomes a problem as the villagers have to open more and more land each year.
Then it is the time for the IDPs of Sunchareun to review the village situation. More proactive activities on forests reservations should be done and recorded as evedences. So that they may help when their turn to be relocated comes in the future.
Hope it is not too late to do so. But the GOs should also take good care of such development too.
