CERTAIN HOUSES IN VICINITY OF Three Pagodas Pass border area in Kanchanaburi are suspected as clandestine passageways for human trafficking and goods smuggling scams.

 

Members of the House Committee on National Security, Border Affairs and National Strategies and Reform have recently visited Three Pagodas Pass area in Sangkhla district of the western province and suspected that those houses near the Thai-Myanmar border pass may have been literally used as illicit channels for human trafficking and goods smuggling rackets, House committee spokesman/Move Forward MP Piyarat Jongthep said today (Dec.19).

 

Though those houses near Three Pagodas Pass are owned by Thai nationals, furnished with land title deeds and located in Thai territory, their backyards lie adjacent to Myanmar territory in Payathonzu township of Kayin State across the border from Sangkhlaburi district.

 

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

Three pagodas standing side by side at the pass named after them. Photo: Thai Rath

 

Full story: THAI NEWSROOM 2023-12-20

 

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3 hours ago, webfact said:

Though those houses near Three Pagodas Pass are owned by Thai nationals, furnished with land title deeds and located in Thai territory, their backyards lie adjacent to Myanmar territory in Payathonzu township of Kayin State across the border from Sangkhlaburi district.

So prove it and bulldoze them or look elsewhere.

If the border needs to be enforced, then build a fence or wall on the Thai side. 
 

I suspect the value of the trade precludes this move.

Walls have been proven useless at the southern USA border, and the guy who pushed for a wall said he was really good at building walls. Probably no better here.

7 minutes ago, neeray said:

Walls have been proven useless at the southern USA border, and the guy who pushed for a wall said he was really good at building walls. Probably no better here.

You are completely out of touch... the wall building was working until joe stopped it...

Just now, Skipalongcassidy said:

You are completely out of touch... the wall building was working until joe stopped it...

I emphatically disagree with you. And I'm far from out of touch. Under trump, very little wall got built, and much of it fell down. Besides, the illegals soon figured out how to get around it, over it and through it, even in trumps time.

Has been for years!!!. At the duty free areas, right on the border, there are gaps between the shop stalls where they walk through with back packs on. One of the car parks adjacent the border crossing is technically in Burma too!!

It´s good that they go out with this information, so the criminals can prepare other routes and stay clear of the law. it might have been better to notice the findings and stake out the places until the criminals arrive.

Submarine will be a big help. 

7 hours ago, neeray said:

Walls have been proven useless at the southern USA border, and the guy who pushed for a wall said he was really good at building walls. Probably no better here.

How on earth can you spin the incompetence of the current on the success of his predecessor? Only in a really twisted mind. Anyway this is about Thailand not America!!!