Making Way

“Thai people attend a religious floral offering Saturday, January 9th, 2010, during a religious ceremony at an old military prison, known as Tuk Din, in Bangkok, Thailand.”

“The prison believed to be haunted with the spirits of the dead, is being demolished to make way for several 20 story apartment blocks for senior military officials. The site has been used to hold and execute criminals for hundreds of years.”

Quoted from Daylife/AP. Making way for senior military officials … Nah, no better place for senior military officials? That’s what you call self-sacrifice for the sake and the good of the nation. Being at it, always wondered who will once live above the amazing Christian cemetery between Sathorn and Silom. Prime location.

Wrote a traveler some years ago, posting photos of broken up graves:

The Christian cemetery adjacent to Silom Road seems to have had some visits from “body snatchers.” The absence of bones and teeth suggest that the intruders were not just looking for gold.

Maybe there’s not too much respect for some of the dead, sometimes.

Not at Tuk Din, making way for senior military officials:

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