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**LOVEBoy** · 09-21-2012, 04:48 PM

This is only my personal opinion, and I am not Thai, just live here, but my feeling is that the administration probably feels NGOs are a thorn in their side, making "unreasonable demands". Then again there are NGOs here that look after underprivileged Thais and others care for asylum seekers and illegal immigrants, so it's a broad question really.

I was in the heart of the capital a few weeks back and saw what I can only describe as a little tent city, lots of makeshift shacks, on the outside of Sanam Luang. Apparently they are dirt-poor farmers from the north who had had their land taken off them for defaulting on loans. It made me feel sick to see this in such a rich area of the city. I think they part of that Assembly of the Poor.

09-21-2012, 04:48 PM	#3
LOVEBoy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 487 Senior Member	This is only my personal opinion, and I am not Thai, just live here, but my feeling is that the administration probably feels NGOs are a thorn in their side, making "unreasonable demands". Then again there are NGOs here that look after underprivileged Thais and others care for asylum seekers and illegal immigrants, so it's a broad question really. I was in the heart of the capital a few weeks back and saw what I can only describe as a little tent city, lots of makeshift shacks, on the outside of Sanam Luang. Apparently they are dirt-poor farmers from the north who had had their land taken off them for defaulting on loans. It made me feel sick to see this in such a rich area of the city. I think they part of that Assembly of the Poor.
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