In fact, it’s the rusty bureaucratic system that underlies the death sentence for this old community — a living heritage item that makes this part of old town quarters in Bangkok unique. All the decisions in the Mahakan case were made by bureaucrats in a top-down, authoritarian format. It was not particularly relevant for issues like the Mahakan case, yet it gave the state agency a free hand to handle - or mishandle - the community. The Mahakan case is full of ironies. Many that would have qualified for his project were already uprooted from this old community by the stroke of ignorant act.

Source: Bangkok Post February 12, 2018 00:45 UTC