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05-27-2005, 05:29 PM
http://www.bangkokpost.net/News/27May2005_news02.php
10,000 people flee city of peace in fear of lives
MUHAMAD AYUB PATHAN
Yala _ Fear for their safety has pushed more than 10,000 people out of Yala, the southern city recognised as a ''city of peace'' last year by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).
In March last year 77,000 people lived in the municipality. But the latest census reveals the city's population has dropped by 12,000 to only 65,000.
Pongsak Yingchoncharoen, mayor of the Yala municipality, said people have lost confidence in the safety of their lives and property after the arms robbery at a military camp in Narathiwat's Cho Airong district on Jan 4 last year.
The outflux of people is taking its toll on the city's economy and the municipality's tax collections. The municipal tax take was now 30% down.
Based on an assumption that one person has about 2,000 baht to spend a month, the amount of money circulating in the municipality had dropped about 20 million baht per month or at least 240 million baht a year, Mr Pongsak said.
Unrest in the area has had a bigger effect on the economy than the Dec 26 tsunami, he said.
''Basically, Yala is a good place to live in. It is one of five cities that won a prize from Unesco for being the most habitable. However, the prize has failed to stop local people from moving out. They do not feel safe any more,'' the mayor said.
Pote Paiboonkasemsut, president of the Yala Chamber of Commerce, said real estate businesses had been hit. Traders and business owners had asked for help from the government and the Southern Border Provinces Peace-building Command, but little had come. Many small-scale businesses had gradually closed.
Unesco mentioned the municipality's outstanding work in reducing violence and projects that promoted public participation, a green environment and child development when the UN agency picked the city for Prize of Honours as a City of Peace.
Why are these people leaving?????????? Who or what is causing the "city of peace" to shrink?
http://babylon.servershost.net/~forumasi/web/blogs/index.php?m=2005
Read a few of these articles. It shouldn't take more than a nanosecond. NBADanAllah will need some help understanding.
Time to start :makemyday the "peaceful" fucktards.
10,000 people flee city of peace in fear of lives
MUHAMAD AYUB PATHAN
Yala _ Fear for their safety has pushed more than 10,000 people out of Yala, the southern city recognised as a ''city of peace'' last year by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).
In March last year 77,000 people lived in the municipality. But the latest census reveals the city's population has dropped by 12,000 to only 65,000.
Pongsak Yingchoncharoen, mayor of the Yala municipality, said people have lost confidence in the safety of their lives and property after the arms robbery at a military camp in Narathiwat's Cho Airong district on Jan 4 last year.
The outflux of people is taking its toll on the city's economy and the municipality's tax collections. The municipal tax take was now 30% down.
Based on an assumption that one person has about 2,000 baht to spend a month, the amount of money circulating in the municipality had dropped about 20 million baht per month or at least 240 million baht a year, Mr Pongsak said.
Unrest in the area has had a bigger effect on the economy than the Dec 26 tsunami, he said.
''Basically, Yala is a good place to live in. It is one of five cities that won a prize from Unesco for being the most habitable. However, the prize has failed to stop local people from moving out. They do not feel safe any more,'' the mayor said.
Pote Paiboonkasemsut, president of the Yala Chamber of Commerce, said real estate businesses had been hit. Traders and business owners had asked for help from the government and the Southern Border Provinces Peace-building Command, but little had come. Many small-scale businesses had gradually closed.
Unesco mentioned the municipality's outstanding work in reducing violence and projects that promoted public participation, a green environment and child development when the UN agency picked the city for Prize of Honours as a City of Peace.
Why are these people leaving?????????? Who or what is causing the "city of peace" to shrink?
http://babylon.servershost.net/~forumasi/web/blogs/index.php?m=2005
Read a few of these articles. It shouldn't take more than a nanosecond. NBADanAllah will need some help understanding.
Time to start :makemyday the "peaceful" fucktards.