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issue 2 83
23 May 2014
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how will martial law effect us?
hua hin, THAILAND
As martial law was declared nationwide on Tuesday, the first question
most people have asked is ‘how will this effect us?’ While it is hard to
exactly answer this, the official word from the Tourism Authority of
Thailand is effectively ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ with the proviso of
avoiding demonstration or protest areas, and in Bangkok to avoid going
outside in the evenings.
For Hua Hin, based on previous similar incidents like the military coup
in 2006, it is unlikely to have any ramifications for anyone living in or
visiting the area. And the reported rejection this week of a planned antigovernment rally on Sunday outside Klai Kangwon Palace by protest monk
Luang Pu Buddha Isara seems to indicate that the city authorities want to
keep it that way.
Heads of villages and people’s representatives met at the Hua Hin district
office last Friday to express their opposition to the monk’s plans. Buddha
Isara, who is a co-leader of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee
(PDRC), had intended to hold a rally with some 6,000 demonstrators. Pol
Maj Gen Thanet Soonthornsook, the Prachuap Khiri Khan provincial police
chief, said, “It is unnecessary to file the petition in Hua Hin as concerned
people can lodge it with the Privy Council Chambers in Bangkok,” and
stressed that there should not be such political movements in Hua Hin.
It is feasible that there may even be a mini boom of tourists heading this
way, to escape the stricter conditions faced in Bangkok, and if this were
the case it would prove true the old adage ‘it’s an ill wind that blows nobody
any good’.
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