Elephants on the loose in Bangkok
By: Piyaporn Wongruang, in Bangkok Post.
After receiving many complaints about elephants and their mahouts in the Rama IX area earlier this month, Prayote Promsuwan, a senior official for the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s (BMA) law enforcement and inspection division, sometimes known as the thetsakit, mobilised his subordinates and Livestock Department officials to arrest the mahouts. Instead of running away like normal criminal suspects, the mahouts, who were taking a rest at an empty plot of land, just craned their necks and watched as the officials approached them. The two sides greeted awkwardly, with wry grins all around, until Mr Prayote broke the silence by saying: “Let’s get together and talk.”
Check last weeks articles about street begging elephants in the Bangkok Post:
Elephants on the loose in Bangkok
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