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PM Yingluck orders probe as raging fires ravage forests

Published: 18 Aug 2012 at 00.00
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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has ordered a probe into alleged involvement of politicians in widespread bushfires in peat swamp forests in Nakhon Si Thammarat and other provinces.

Swamped in smoke: Thick smoke enshrouds a vast tract of peat swamp forest in Nakhon Si Thammarat. Fires have destroyed more than 15,000 rai of the peat swamp, including part of the Samet Khao cultivation study area of the Chaipattana Foundation. (Photo by Nucharee Rakrun)

The masterminds of the bushfires are "politicians at the national and local levels", said Damrong Pidech, chief of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation.

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amazed
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Discussion 3 : 18 Aug 2012 at 05.173
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If identification of these selfish individuals is not possible then the next best thing is to destroy whatever may be planted on that land. And keep doing it until they realize that they have nothing to gain from this stupid, wanton destruction of wildlife and environment.
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Several years ago, this similar activity consumed parts of Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai provinces. One day you could drive down a road that had been completely forested two weeks before and there was a bare hillside as far as you could see being readied to plant orange trees which were going to make everyone rich. This was during Yongyuth's time as Interior Minister and of course he is from Chiang Rai. Rumor was that he was one of the "wealthy elite" TRT politicians burning the land to plant orange trees.
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Discussion 1 : 18 Aug 2012 at 03.351
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....SO again nobody will be responsible ...goverment should replant the same kind of trees that was in those forest in those burned area just to show that you cant do things like that ...if they let those people plant some rubber and palm trees it will show that the goverment in not doing is job.
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