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Internationalist 363
December
2003
When I was working as a photojournalist, a colleague advised me to come to Government House in Bangkok for the Cabinet meeting every Tuesday. The chance for protesters to make the news is higher on a Tuesday than on other days, when journalists are sparse. On some Tuesdays I found no-one. On others there were three or four major protests. On Tuesday 7 January 2003 children from the Assembly of the Poor were there, raising banners and shouting: ‘Almighty Prime Minister is a liar!’ This is a reference to Prime Minister Taksin’s refusal to open the sluice gates of the Pak Moon dam and allow the Moon River ecology to recover. The dam, funded by the World Bank and completed in 1994, has never functioned properly. It has also caused severe hardship to thousands of families, who have not received the compensation they were promised. Shutting down the turbines and opening the sluice gates would spare taxpayers the cost of running the dam and of unpaid compensation, if fisheries and fishing livelihoods were restored as a result. I have no idea if my photo book featuring protests like these will be of use to anyone. I can only hope that it may arouse interest, some sympathy and understanding for fellow human beings in wretched circumstances. In the end, we are all part of every problem. Manit
Sriwanichpoom,Thailand
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