In the mid of 1980’s, the Hmong village at Ban Pakluay became the area of conflicts between the Hmong and Thai lowlanders led by the monks, Thai-Norway Highland Development project and the Thai government’s Department of Forestry. It was because of an attempt to change the Hmong way of life to cultivate cash crops and cabbage, replacing opium poppy cultivation. Cabbage cultivation needs a water system, fertilizer, chemicals, and pesticide which made the lowlanders living down stream unsatisfied and they blamed the Hmong environmental degradation, forest burning, and water pollution. Thus, the lowlanders drove out and protested against the Hmong and drove them out led by Phra Pongsak. They fenced off the Hmong with barbwire fences and forced them to move out, but there are no other areas, so the Hmong are still there.