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Pom Mahakan community residents resist city’s eviction order

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Pom Mahakan community residents resist city’s eviction order

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BANGKOK:-- Hundreds of residents living for several decades at the century old Mahakan Fort or locally known as Pom Mahakan in the compound of Wat Sakhet formed resistance lines this morning to block a hundred of city workers trying to enter their community in the capital's old town zone to demolish their houses after deadline for eviction had expired.
 

The angry residents blocked the entrance to their old community with traffic barricades, holding posters protesting the eviction.

 

No outsiders were allowed to enter their community even media representatives to take photographs.

 

They demanded negotiations with person who has authority to suspend and definitely stop the eviction saying they won’t leave whatever would happen.

 

They said they wanted authorities to preserve this  ancient community which in history served as the front defense wall of the capital.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pom-mahakan-community-residents-resist-citys-eviction-order/

 

 

 
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24 minutes ago, bluebluewater said:

If you want attention or to get something done in Thailand - BLOCK A ROAD!   It really works.

 

I can't figure out why the common folks don' do it more often.

The common folks block the roads in Bangkok every day. Just take a taxi around 5 pm around Sukhumvit or Silom and you will see.

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17 hours ago, bluebluewater said:

If you want attention or to get something done in Thailand - BLOCK A ROAD!   It really works.

 

I can't figure out why the common folks don' do it more often.

it may serve an immediate purpose but does it serve the purpose of the nation. that is important.

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16 hours ago, Hornell said:

Whatever happened to the PM's interest in this, as reported a few days ago?  Once again the BMA is riding roughshod over logic.  Come on PM, if you can forbid the Boys in Brown to hold suspect parades, you can surely do something here!

this is a universal problem. the residents' stand is that they have not alternative to go to. the authorities insist that they are illegal squatters; hence they have to move.

the only solution is to provide a suitable alternative to the residents and thereby get their cooperation to vacate.

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3 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

No other plot of land has a historical structure on it. These people have been squatting on the land for years. Time to move on.

Give them housing simple. No structure is more important than people of there Bring Happiness to the People nation.

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