FIRST FIRE, NOW EVICTION - Communities face many problems when residents are asked to move elsewhere - Bangkok Post, October
2, 2005
A major fire consumed the Klong San Chao Khrut community near
Pin Klao Bridge in 1996. Nearly a decade after the 40-family community
rebuilt itself, it is grappling with a new crisis--an eviction order.
Not far away, another community, Siri-amart, which is at the back
of Royal Hotel on Ratchadamnoen avenue, is facing a similar fate.
The first community has been forced to leave the land the residents
have occupied for generations to pave the way for a Siriraj Hospital
plan to build a new rehabilitation centre and a dormitory. Siri-amart,
which houses 30 low-income families, will give up the land for a
public park as part of the Rattanakosin development plan...
FIRST FIRE, NOW EVICTION – Communities face many problems when residents are asked to move elsewhere
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