Cleaning up the streets of Bangkok
Pornography is no longer openly displayed on Sukhumvit's pavements, but for how long?
The superintendent of the much-maligned Lumpini police district made a bold statement when asked about pornography recently. "I can guarantee it," Pol Col Sarawuth Jindakham said when asked if pornographic DVDs and VCDs would still be off the streets in six months' time.
NOT FOR SALE: Pirated VCDs displayed at a police press conference on Wednesday. PHOTOS: PATTANAPONG HIRUNARD AND SOMCHAI POOMLARD
After a recent series of articles in the Bangkok Post on the open sale of pirated pornography - including child porn and bestiality - along Sukhumvit Road between sois 3 and 21, Lumpini police came in for a storm of criticism from the public who were outraged they had failed to remove the offensive material and arrest the sellers.
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- Writer: Maxmilian Wechsler
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