Turning on the ignition, the speakers blare Plerng Chiwit, translated as Music For Life, a genre of Thai leftist folk music written in these hills for the rebellion. After somberly wandering around the site we get back in our car. The thirty-year conflict brought both farmers and student intellectuals into the wild to fight together against the Thai state. This encampment is one of the only remnants of the communist insurgency which once raged across these hills. Getting out the car we walk for a few minutes through the trees to find a rusted old bulldozer among a small cluster of dilapidated wooden huts. DEEP IN THE forested mountains in Thailand’s northeastern Phetchabun province on the edge of the Isaan region, on the corner of a bend, sits a small car park with a few deserted market stalls.
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