Flood-weary residents vent fury

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Road blockade group clashes with motorists

Published: 24/11/2011 at 10:07 AM
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Hundreds of flood-devastated residents in Pathum Thani yesterday clashed with motorists during the Din Daeng-Don Muang tollway blockade to pressure the government to accelerate assistance and the drainage of deep floodwater.

Residents of swamped communities in Pathum Thani clash with motorists during the blockade of the Din Daeng-Don Muang tollway in front of Zeer Rangsit department store yesterday. The flood victims set up a roadblock to demand the government speed up flood relief operations after being hard hit by deep floodwaters for about a month. PATTANAPONG HIRUNARD

The residents from several flooded communities in Rangsit and Lam Luk Ka areas, led by former election candidate Kiattisak Songsaeng, set up a blockade on the entrance of the inbound tollway in front of Zeer Rangsit department store at about noon.

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lazar
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Discussion 15 : 24/11/2011 at 05:17 PM15
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Discussion 13: BMA is not responsible for outside Bangkok. Froc is and they need to learn to make their own decisions.
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Discussion 14 : 24/11/2011 at 04:50 PM14
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Is YS the PM of thailand or not? Didn't she declare emergency decree giving her more power to order directions? Let in more water to the East of Bangkok - that area has been very dry since the floods started (I am not talking about the province to the east - Chachoengsao). Let more water flow and drain out through samut prakarn to ease the suffering of people in the NW and West of Bangkok. The areas towards the East has better drainage yet they still refuse to drain it out that way. The west is a long and slow draining process through Tha Chin river.
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Discussion 13 : 24/11/2011 at 03:24 PM13
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D11, Lazar,

This has everything to do with the BMA.

If the BMA hadn't mismanaged the drainage system in Bangkok, the majority of the floodwaters would have been gone already.
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Discussion 12 : 24/11/2011 at 01:17 PM12
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Yingluck shouldn't be pleading with anyone; she should have plans to pump the water out of their areas (through existing canals and rivers leading out to sea) and pick up the garbage that's stinking up their neighborhoods. You can't just put up sandbag dykes and use those provinces as water containers indefinitely.
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Discussion 11 : 24/11/2011 at 12:20 PM11
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This has nothing to do with BMA. They take care of Bangkok city. This is the Froc's baby, its theirs and YS responsibility to take care of the people.
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Discussion 10 : 24/11/2011 at 11:44 AM10
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I have to get out once a day and traverse through waters up to the waist. In doing this I have to negotiate through plastic bags filled with human waste, trash and the thick soup of stagnant water. The water is not receding here (Rangsit Soi 31).

People cleaning out their shops just throw bags of trash into the water. Most just throw trash.

A few days ago you could see various objects floating by; chairs, buckets, tables, sofas. Now nothing moves....just floating trash and small mosquitoes.

Do you wonder why the people are taking to the streets? (I'd love to post a photo so everyone could see, but it seems, no one in power wants the truth to be known.)
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Discussion 9 : 24/11/2011 at 11:38 AM9
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By negotiating with Bangkok residents whose areas have dried out to let let flood waters drain through their areas, PM Yingluck is following the correct democratic path. However, her patience must be running out and if no solution can be found soon, would she be justified in obtaining special powers to ensure the remaining floodwaters are drained out to the sea without further unnecessary delay?

At the early stages of the crisis the Democrats called for emergency powers, perhaps the time has come for the government to reconsider their proposal now.
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Discussion 8 : 24/11/2011 at 11:02 AM8
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The PM is done with the flood .Its back to pushing useless populist policies and letting her brother get off his corruption charges via Chalerm .Pathetic
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Discussion 7 : 24/11/2011 at 10:11 AM7
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It seems the armed mobs are here to stay, as it's already proven that they can do what they like without anyone trying to stop them.
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Discussion 6 : 24/11/2011 at 08:45 AM6
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It seems like it took forever until the police decided to have a look at the closed road and the demonstrators. Were they busy fining motorcycles because they used the wrong lane or what took them so long?
I almost forgot: There is no money to make from blocked cars and they could get hurt with all the knives and sharp objects around.
Who was the police chief again? Who put him in that position?
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