Violence in Low Cost Apartment

Low cost apartment is the great option for people who have the low income or the one who have limited budget for rooms and accommodations.
Especially in Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand, there are so many low cost apartments around the area because the number of population in Bangkok is increasing every year. As labors from all over the country migrated to work in city area, their choice of places to stay is nowhere except the budget apartments for rent that offer the affordable price for their salary range.

Since the price for renting is very low, so does the living quality of the place that is also reflected by poor security system, bad neighborhood, drug problems and violence. As you can see from the daily newspaper, there are so many crimes and violence which usually occurred in this kind of budget apartments or flats.
Most of violence in the apartment that occurs is always related to the problem about money. Loan shark is one of the major problems for the low income society. Due to the fact that these people with limited knowledge and skills usually can not raise enough money for making a living of their own family or even oneself. Therefore loan shark is one of the easiest ways out to raise quick cash. However, in the end they usually can not pay back the loan, together with the super high amount of interest. That is the violence stating point. Physically abuse will be a result of loan shark problem as the threatening action for paying back money to the loaner.

Sribumpen apartment is the 30 years old apartment which locate near the center of Bangkok and in this apartment have many case about rob, murder and suicide. Such as on 11 April 2008, the man was killed with the knife in his room by his gay partner because the murder has a fight with the dead because he don’t have the money to play back the loan and the dead don’t give him the money, he got angry and dig the dead with a knife 4-5 time and then run away. After they find the body on 11 April 2008 the police arrest the murder in a few days.

Is this problem should be stop? and how?

Police's Right

High risk illness career that devote themselves to citizens

Thai people tend to stick on the road because of traffic jam everyday not just in the morning before going to work but it happens all day. As a result, policemen are playing the important role to solve this problem to make it better. He has to work with heat, burning sun, noise and air polution for all day long. While we just sitting on the air-conditioning car and blame that Thai weather is so hot or stress over the amount of traffic in Bangkok, we might forget to think about others who work hard for our country.

The duties of policeman are oversee, watch over resident and arrest wrongdoer. Thai traffic police has to allocate road and gesticulate cars to lighten up the cars. Policeman has a big responsibility for protecting citizen to live peacefully.

Due to their duty, they have to stay outside the koban for many hours. Thai police have to wear tight uniform. The uniform including, brown stiff military cap or helmet, brown shirt, brown trousers, black belt, black leather boots and mask. This outfit closes almost every part of body from head to toe.

Police uniform has no standard in color, some are dark brown and some are light brown. The fabric is not suitable for working condition, such as it is harder to arrest wrongdoer because the fabric of uniform is thick, heavy, inelastic and too tight. It is awkward to move and easy to be torn. The uniform should ventilate the air because Thailand is a tropical country. Policemen have to expose to the sun for many hours which can lead them to dehydration and faint. Moreover, the boots is not proper for Thai weather. Although it seems like little things, it can lead disease to them, such as Tinea, Athlete's foot. These are not a small problem for people’s health.

Despite police has good welfare for nursing and the cooperate from the division, it is not fair for them to take the risk with their health. It is a people’s life. They are human being. They should have rights to be healthy. They should have equipment that meets the standard and good quality for their career. The division should take more serious about these problems.

Nowadays, we might experience with bad policemen who squeeze out and corrupt residents’ money. On the other hand, our country still have good policeman. We should consider to the goodness that he sacrificed to us. They have to work very hard and devote themselves for our society.

Rohinya Muslims

Rohinya Muslims

We have been hearing news of the escape of Rohinya Muslims, to the South of Thailand, since September last year. The result is that a total of 1200 migrants coming into Thailand over 20 different times, there is no wonder why Thailand has become one of the world’s largest human dumping depots.

Rohinya Muslims are a group of people from Bangladesh who lived in the west of Burma, they have been abused and treated badly by the Burma militants. The reason of the escaping of the Rohinya is that they don’t want to be under the Burma Junta. So, they tried to escape to other countries and Thailand seems to be one of the favorite destinations, but who knows whether they will face the same thing in Thailand.

The news that Thai militants had arrested and harmed the migrants arriving at the south coast of Thailand has become a big issue in society. These people are in working level, want to work and live in Thailand. The Thai militants refused the allegations of harming those migrants. Thai government sent the medical examiners to find out and they can prove that Thai militants are innocent.

Therefore, the Thai government will discourage the Rohinya Muslims from sailing to Thailand. Instead encourage the migrants to their preferred destination, by the Thai authorities or the Royal Thai Navy, they provide food and other survival necessities for the migrants to go further. Malaysia is the most preferred destination for them because they share the same religion.

However, to deal with this problem in Thailand, should not be the government policy but to help them, from all levels; both regional and international. Thailand has to clean up corruption among our immigration officials with the traffickers, especially in border areas. We should eliminate the cause of the problem first and then we can solve the rest, because the trafficking of people is an important problem for Thailand.

Human rights and freedom are the two things that every human being wants, not only the Rohinya. People will never stop seeking for freedom or calling for their human rights as long as inequality and discrimination still exist in this world. The Rohinya has to face with the limitation of their religion, abuse in their working classes and the citizenship laws that do not allow their immigration. They sail to try and obtain human dignity but are hopeless; they become the sailboat that the world doesn’t want.

Grassroots HRED (Human Rights Education and Development) is an organization which is working for Burmese migrant workers and their children in southern Thailand. These people are a committee of Burmese teachers, democratic activists, social workers, health workers and migrant workers. They are promoting human rights, which have concluded in three objectives; providing education, promoting job opportunities until there is a safe working environment and to bridge the gap between Thai and Burmese communities.