Cyber brickbats thrown as wall at ancient Ayutthaya wall comes down

[webfact]

Cyber brickbats thrown as wall at ancient Ayutthaya wall comes down

By THE NATION

 

UNESCO-recognised Wat Chai Wattanaram, in a 2011 file photo

 

The provincial historical park in Ayutthaya has come under fire over a renovation project at a key site following the demolition of a wall. 

 

Chief of the park, Sukanya Baonert, today visited the site at Wat Chaiwattanaram but refused to give interviews, instead ordering her staff to take pictures of all reporters at the scene.

 

She said only that the renovations involved the construction of a new wall on the site of an ancient wall.

 

Wat Chaiwattanaram has long been known as a key attraction in the old Ayutthaya Kingdom, and it is granted a World Heritage status for many years.

 

The issue has become an online drama and drawn a large amount of negative feedback on social media despite a third-party post defending the renovation work, saying that the “ancient wall” was not an original one, but had been re-built just 30 years ago.

 

The Fine Arts Bureau Regional Office Zone 3, the umbrella agency in charge of the provincial historical park in Ayutthaya, has not made any public statements over this issue or other topics mostly involving similar demolitions, which were also the subject of online debate.

 

The original post over the demolition of the “ancient wall” questioned why it was not being removed “brick-by-brick”, instead of in its entirety to make way for the new wall and re-wiring work.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30375048

 

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[HLover]

6 minutes ago, webfact said:

the “ancient wall” was not an original one, but had been re-built just 30 years ago.

Ahh, reminds me of that 'hand crafted' priceless wooden frog that made noise as a rod was drawn across it's back....

Made in China sticker discovered later.

[RotMahKid]

Renovating has a total different meaning in Thailand. In Lampang they "renovated" the ancient city wall, with normal new bricks and I think the same thing happened in Chiang Mai  also.

Edited August 20, 2019 by RotMahKid

[DrTuner]

Anything that's standing in Thailand after 30 years can be considered ancient.

[emptypockets]

Quite concerning that she ordered her staff to take photos of all the reporters present. For future reference no doubt should any derogatory stories surface later.  Intimidation of the press at its finest. 

[Colabamumbai]

What, no foreigners sitting on it. 

[mlmcleod]

23 hours ago, webfact said:

Chief of the park, Sukanya Baonert, today visited the site at Wat Chaiwattanaram but refused to give interviews, instead ordering her staff to take pictures of all reporters at the scene.

 

I guess that the edditers of the newspapers will soon receive a summons for daring to report the news!

[RJRS1301]

6 hours ago, Colabamumbai said:

What, no foreigners sitting on it. 

Standing on it taking fashion type selfies ?

 

[seajae]

probably selling the old bricks as souvenirs and using new ones instead, maybe they should have had a historian show proof it was not ancient before they started to dismantle it especially as its world heritage