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Protest stepped up as Doi Suthep residents show no sign of moving

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Protest stepped up as Doi Suthep residents show no sign of moving

By Nisanart Kangwalwong 
The Nation

 

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The Doi Suthep Forest Reclamation Network is to step up its protests over the contentious housing project built on the forested slopes of the sacred mountain.

 

Network coordinator Teerasak Rupsuwan on Monday said the group would stage a protest on Saturday and would also submit a petition to the Supreme Court president to help solve the dispute “before things get out of control and people lose faith in the institute”. 

 

The group will gather at 1pm on Saturday near Appeals Court Region 5 to read a statement condemning those it says have failed to honour the agreement brokered on May 6 by the government to have 45 houses and nine flats returned to the Treasury Department.

 

Teerasak said he expected a larger crowd than that which attended a similar protest in April.

 

Two sub-committees tasked with surveying the site to see how it has been impacted by the construction work, would conclude their findings to submit to the government by July 6, he added.

 

The controversial project comprises the residential development of flats and houses, plus the Administrative Office building of Appeals Court Region 5. 

 

According to the agreement, the land on which the residential dwellings sit, deemed to be forestland, will be handed back to the Treasury and eventually added to the Doi Suthep-Pui National Park, while the court will retain the office building and four flats. 

 

However 30 families have been moving into the “forestland” flats” since April and have stayed there even after the June 18 deadline, when the contractor was supposed to hand over the last phase of the project to the court and the process to return a portion of the buildings should have begun. 

 

The construction, which is behind deadline, was still continuing and there had been no explanation whether they had extended the contract or not, said Teerasak.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30348592

 
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If the condos are high enough to escape the smog they might just be worth a look.

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Maybe they should consider a blockade on the entrance to the place. When those living there illegally can't get out to buy food, or go to work, they may reconsider their position and adhere to the rulings on the matter to vacate.

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It wouldn't have been so bad if the building had been in a sympathetic alpine style, but these look like they were built by  North Koreans, in the brutalist 'Thai Modern' school of architecture.

Get those judiciary maggots out of there, and return the site to the jungle.

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Another case of the "untouchable caste" these "judiciaries"?

 

Did the military make a long story on encroached beaches, illegal restaurants/shacks?

No, they came with the bulldozers.

Double standards as we know it.

 

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13 hours ago, ThreeEyedRaven said:

Maybe they should consider a blockade on the entrance to the place. When those living there illegally can't get out to buy food, or go to work, they may reconsider their position and adhere to the rulings on the matter to vacate.

Or even shut down the necessary gas and water utilities.

14 hours ago, ThreeEyedRaven said:

Maybe they should consider a blockade on the entrance to the place. When those living there illegally can't get out to buy food, or go to work, they may reconsider their position and adhere to the rulings on the matter to vacate.

The blockade is a good idea but I suggest letting them out. Just don’t let them back in. 555

These poor judges ........ all the while farmers have to dump pineapples by the truck as there is nobody to buy their produce while the canning and bottling is in the hand of "licensed" operators. 

In what country are we living? 

Now the man is back Im sure he will come up with something just like the election dates !

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