Tak officials checking vehicles leaving province

By The Nation

 

 

Tak officials are checking vehicles leaving the northern province since Thursday morning in a supposed effort to prevent a massive turnout outside the Supreme Court when it delivers the final verdict on Friday on former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra over the controversial rice-pledging scheme.

 

A source said officials interviewed motorists and passengers of vans about their destinations at various checkpoints.

 

So far, there have not been any reports of any group being stopped from travelling by the officials.

 

Other sources said military officials have talked to several local red-shirt leaders in Mae Sot, Mae Ranad and Muang districts but they said they had distanced themselves from politics so they would not travel to Bangkok.

 

But one source said five or six red-shirt leaders had already gone to Bangkok on their own.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30324753

 

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Perhaps it's time for the introduction of a system similar to that operated in South Africa during the dark days of apartheid.

 

"In South Africa, pass laws were a form of internal passport system designed to segregate the population, manage urbanisation, and allocate migrant labour."

 

The following would also be the next logical step.

 

"On 27 April 1950, the Apartheid government passed the Group Areas Act. This Act enforced the segregation of the different races to specific areas within the urban locale. It also restricted ownership and the occupation of land to a specific statutory group."

Edited August 24, 20178 yr by BigBadGeordie
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Some people are scared shit somewhere - me thinks! 

7 hours ago, BigBadGeordie said:

Perhaps it's time for the introduction of a system similar to that operated in South Africa during the dark days of apartheid.

 

"In South Africa, pass laws were a form of internal passport system designed to segregate the population, manage urbanisation, and allocate migrant labour."

 

The following would also be the next logical step.

 

"On 27 April 1950, the Apartheid government passed the Group Areas Act. This Act enforced the segregation of the different races to specific areas within the urban locale. It also restricted ownership and the occupation of land to a specific statutory group."

 

Thailand already has something similar for hilltribe people, who are often undocumented but unable to obtain Thai-ID cards, even when born within the country.

 

I sometimes drive up to Mae Salong from Chiang Mai, along the main road closest to the border-area, there are regular police-checks on IDs of travellers along the way.

 

Often the villagers may have a paper issued by their village headman, this allows local-travel only.

Maybe not stopped from traveling, but they were stopped as they traveled.

 
Thailand already has something similar for hilltribe people, who are often undocumented but unable to obtain Thai-ID cards, even when born within the country.
 
I sometimes drive up to Mae Salong from Chiang Mai, along the main road closest to the border-area, there are regular police-checks on IDs of travellers along the way.
 
Often the villagers may have a paper issued by their village headman, this allows local-travel only.

Yes very true. With being "undocumented" often goes being unable to get an education, access to medical treatment and even things like opening a bank account!
They are appallingly treated at these roadblocks by the police.

On one occasion I watched as two whole families were taken off the Chang Rai - Mai Sai bus at a checkpoint. I was given some grief because I carry my phone in a little "Akka" pouch hung round my neck. The copper said they were "dirty and no good."