Proposal to trim Kaeng Krachan heritage bid

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Proposal to trim Kaeng Krachan heritage bid
By Pratch Rujivanarom 
The Nation

 

Photo credit by Kaeng Krachan National Park /FB

 

PHETCHABURI: -- AN AREA OF Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi that is being promoted for designation as a world heritage site may have to be reduced as neighbouring Myanmar maintains its strong stance in opposition to the United Nations recognition if a border dispute is not settled beforehand.

 

The National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department has stated that discussions with Myanmar on the border demarcation at the park are ongoing, but officials said they did not expect any progress soon, so the proposed area for designation could possibly be reduced to avoid conflict, officials said.

Thailand has discussed the boundary demarcation issue with Myanmar several times since the World Heritage Committee meeting at Istanbul in July, said Thanya Netithammakul, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department director-general.

 

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[JoePai]

Get the army to invade Burma and adjust their attitude

[Dibbler]

There are one or two civil rights cases involving Karen tribespeople who disappeared in Kaeng Krachan National Park that implicate a previous park director in serious human rights violations.  This would not be lost on the UNESCO committee reviewing   a proposal from Thailand for a new WHA.  There would be a serious risk that the Thai government would use a WHA designation as an excuse to forcibly remove Karen people living in the area to "preserve" the forests.  There are possibly other deeper darker secrets lurking near the Thai-Myanmar border.

[dereckatters]

UNESCO once urged Thailand to fully address the issues and concerns raised by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights as for the Karen communities in the Kaeng Krachan National Park.

[dereckatters]

The dispute with the land is practically cause the territory is not strictly demarcated by the countries. According to some sources, the percentage of the land is 34%, but the most recent updates taken from the interview with U Kyaw Zaw (article suggested by the term paper writer Paul Bradly to Huffington Post) showed 42% of the land belong to Myanmar. I wonder why they can't make it clear...