A Village Under Siege


  • Photographer
    Luke Duggleby
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Luke Duggleby Photography
  • Date of Photograph
    May 2016

For almost a decade the villagers of Klong Sai Pattana in Southern Thailand have been on the receiving end of a palm oil company, who’s land concession has already expired 10 years ago, wants them off the land and will do almost anything to remove them. To date 4 people have been shot dead, including 2 women, and a fifth was shot and wounded but survived this year. But the villagers refuse to leave forming a tight-knit community that simply wants to grow food and live in peace. With palm oil and rubber using massive areas of land in Southern Thailand there is a serious issue with landless farmers, those that having been evicted or forced to leave their land due to economic hardship now have no where to grow crops and make a living. To this day they continue to fight against eviction.

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