The Association of Siamese Architects (ASA) will ask Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon to step in to stop the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) "uprooting" the entire Mahakan community. The ASA also insisted all the residents must be allowed to live in their community, to keep Mahakan Fort as a "living museum". The ASA in July last year held a meeting with the BMA, security authorities, community residents and academics to discuss conserving the structures in the community and to allow the community to stay. In August, the ASA sent a petition to the Rattanakosin Committee about a proposal for the Mahakan Community's conservation. The Mahakan community and the BMA have been at loggerheads for more than a decade.

Source: Bangkok Post January 28, 2018 19:07 UTC