Demolition men in night forest raid

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Demolition men in night forest raid

Published: 29 Jul 2012 at 00.00
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NAKHON RATCHASIMA : A 3,300-strong army of demolition men stormed a national park under the cover of darkness yesterday and destroyed nine resorts that authorities claim encroached on the forest reserve.

Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation officials demolished buildings at the Ban Talay Mok resort in Thap Lan National Park during a pre-dawn raid Saturday. (Photo by Patipat Janthong)

The forestry representatives armed with guns, sledge hammers and earth-moving machines raided resorts in Thap Lan National Park.

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phetpeter
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Discussion 18 : 29 Jul 2012 at 09.4718
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The problem with leasing out land or giving it to poor farmers is 'MONEY' a new motorbike is worth more face than working the land, plus the rich will employ them, cheap weeding the grounds of their new resorts! They complain they have no work...because they gave them rights away when they sold the land 'lent' to them in the first place.
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Discussion 17 : 29 Jul 2012 at 09.1517
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I don't know whether the owners of those resorts are influentially linked with some big guys or elites or not.
They seemed to be no protection from those powerful figures.
This is quite different from the case of Kao Soidao...yes, it's different!
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Discussion 16 : 29 Jul 2012 at 08.5816
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3,300 bodies eh ,even in buses that would be more than 100 large units. I think someone is exaggerating a wee bit.

Anyway, now the wrecking crew is on a roll, how about returning the Alpine Resort to the temple the original owner donated it to. It currently "belongs " to an absentee landlord who won't be back to claim it any time soon.
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Discussion 15 : 29 Jul 2012 at 08.3215
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I don't know the backstory here but wow, talk about your Scorched-Earth policies. Couldn't the Government simply assume ownership of the property and make some good use of it, seeing as how it's already built? Seems like a huge waste just to demolish it.
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Discussion 14 : 29 Jul 2012 at 08.2814
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Such an incident could only happen in the hands of incapable government.
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Discussion 13 : 29 Jul 2012 at 08.2713
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Sad about forced evictions. How much effort was put in to recycling building materials? ...or were all the materials crushed and destroyed? Proceeds from sale of re-cycled materials could be paid to property owners who lost their investments.
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Discussion 12 : 29 Jul 2012 at 08.2012
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Wow, 3,300 uniformed and armed young men to evict families from the houses they have lived in for years that suddenly became illegally occupation. Why isn’t this amount of man-power and machinery used in the civil-war south of Thailand where people are being killed as we speak? And have been for over a decade?
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Discussion 11 : 29 Jul 2012 at 07.5111
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The raid was based on a claim of encroachment - not actual facts?
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Discussion 10 : 29 Jul 2012 at 07.5010
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Horrible that this had to happen. The same corrupt government officials who allowed this encroachment to happen in the first place, and profited immensely from it, now are demolishing it! Crazy.

Corruption. #1 problem in Thailand today.
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Discussion 9 : 29 Jul 2012 at 07.419
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Wow, 3,300 uniformed young men to evict families from the houses they have lived in for years that suddenly became illegally occupation. Why isn’t this amount of man-power and machinery used in the civil-war south of Thailand where people are being killed as we speak? And have been for over a decade?
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