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By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Supot Kalasong was driving home one afternoon in April when he heard a bang and assumed he had blown his newly-patched tyre. Since 2010, four people have been killed in Klong Sai Pattana, a small community in southern Surat Thani province, that has been locked in a bloody battle for the right to use government land. A court had granted the government legal ownership of the land after a lawsuit over a palm oil company's expired concession.

 

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