Abstract
In April 1986 government officials began evicting hilltribe people from their villages inside two wildlife sanctuaries in northern Thailand. Readers of Cultural Survival Quarterly are familiar with the criticisms of these evictions by Ardith Eudey (1988), an American academic who witnessed the first encounter between residents of a Hmong (Meo) hilltribe community and representatives of the Royal Forestry Department and the Third Army (responsible for the northern region). In this issue of the Quarterly, Chupinit Kesmanee, a civil servant in Thailand's Department of Public Welfare, presents an indictment of the government's resettlement of those evicted.