COLUMN: Autocratic bureaucracy is killing us- by SANITSUDA EKACHAI, Bangkok Post
By SANITSUDA EKACHAI FORMER EDITORIAL PAGES EDITOR
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Big business won. Again. We should not be surprised nor disappointed at the government’s decision to support the weed killer paraquat which poisons the environment and makes us sick. We should be angry.
We should not be angry at only the decision by the Industry Ministry’s Hazardous Substance Committee to allow the use of this toxic farm chemical, which has already been banned in 53 countries around the… read more
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Activists perform a ritual as part of a protest against government-approved pesticides such as paraquat and chlorpyrifos. (File photo by Tawatchai Kemgumnerd)
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The autocrats are panicking because the military regime is on the way out. During the past five years under military rule, the officialdom has become all-powerful, with support from armed men to crush… read more
Without decentralisation, the top-down, autocratic bureaucracy will remain non-transparent, unaccountable, and corrupt. Without bureaucratic reform, the mandarins will continue to poison our environment, make us and our children ill, and weaken the country to no end.
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