Thread: properties buried by developers -phuket

Sounds like standard practice for many developers to me, it's disgraceful but when the shouting is done, the residents will be gone.

This is Thailand, money is the only mitigating factor. If you're poor, then you'll always lose here.

Not very thai of them is it...

Yeah, but I often wonder what that means....

standard procedure should be followed.

They're poor little people, richer bigger people are telling them to fok off.

Should be foking off with a deep wai and backwards crawl.

Troubled Residents, Phanason Meet to Agree Deal

By Chutima Sidasathian
Monday, November 9, 2009
Phuketwan UPDATE

PROTESTERS slept at Provincial Hall in Phuket City overnight and on Tuesday men with a Phanason management representative who agreed to reopen the road to houses on the estate, and said there would be no flooding at homes. In return, the names of the people in the dwellings are to be supplied so settlement terms can be negotiated.


HUGE PILES of earth have been pushed across roads, preventing residents from entering or leaving part of an estate in Phuket City where the developers are in dispute with residents.

A large group of residents were on their way this afternoon to Provincial Hall, where they planned to protest and seek the help of the Governor, Wichai Praisa-ngob.

The governor had visited the site as a result of a previous protest and the timetable for a mediation session had been set.

Today bulldozers pushed the earth into place at Ket Kaew Villas in Vichit on a site that was to be the subject of talks on November 30.

The developers, Phanason, said the earthen barriers had been shifted into place today because the land belongs to them.

Some residents claim to have ownership documents going back before Phanason bought the estate. Others admit they are illegal residents, but many have lived on the estate for years.

One woman said today she farewelled her daughter for university today, on a motorcycle, but she will not be able to return to their home this evening.

Yaowalat Promsiri, 50, said she, her husband and her daughter had been living on the estate for 17 years.

The earth had been pushed close to her home today and the road was no longer accessible, she said.

''We can move but we need time to find a new place to stay,'' she said today.

Khun Yaowalat said that court action was already in the system and a mediation session was scheduled for later this month.

One family had accepted 13,000 baht to move out, she said. But she added that she did not think that was enough. Of the five houses in the row, residents remained in four, she said.

Khun Yaowalat had parked her own motorcycle in front of the earth movers.

''I no longer feel safe here at home during the day.'' she said. ''They may come back and push the dirt even closer. And I do not know how my daughter will make her way home this evening.''

phuketwan

I do not say this lightly or flippantly, but the story would have been much better if someone in one of these houses had a gun and knew how to use it. Anyone who would bury an occupied house does not deserve to live.

What and nobody saw loads of dump trucks full of soil before they dumped it around their house?

Thais are a beautiful, caring people.

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

Thais are a beautiful, caring people.

. . . you forgot 'gentle'.

Originally Posted by Sdigit

Sounds like standard practice for many developers to me, it's disgraceful but when the shooting is done, the residents will be gone.

Sorry, mate - Just corrected your spelling mistake.....

Originally Posted by panama hat

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

Thais are a beautiful, caring people.

. . . you forgot 'gentle'.

Up to the age of ten, perhaps......

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Phuket land dispute heats up

The villagers used old tires to start the fires. The backhoe operators replied with warning gunshots.

Some houses have been partially buried with dirt.

PHUKET CITY: The tense standoff at the Panason City construction site heated up this morning when landless villagers set fires to prevent backhoes from covering their modest homes with dirt and warning gunshots were fired by workers.

The fires were set at about 10am today and warning shots were fired into the air by backhoe operators around noon, one of the protesters told the Gazette by phone.

The protesters have blocked the entrance to the village since November 10 in a protest that sees little hope of ending any time soon.

Protest leader Kasinee 'Ee' Sae-en, said that with no other options left the villagers plan to take their protest right to the top with a trip to Government House in Bangkok.

“We will try to contact the Prime Minister or other officials there, because we haven’t had any luck with local officials. The Mayor of Wichit has already given formal permission for the company to fill in the land, so we have to do something,” she said.

The Gazatte tried to contact the mayor of Wichit municipality, but was unable to get a reply.

Many of the villagers have been living in the area for 10 years.

The villagers lack title deeds, but say they had signed deals with the previous owner of the land to live there before Bangkok-based Panason group acquired the land, 78 rai next to Soi Thep Anusorn off Chao Fa East Rd in Wichit.

For the previous report click here Phuket: Phuket land protest heats up – Atchaa Khamlo

if this was in BKK the entire area would mysteriously catch fire late one night ...