LOPBURI: More than 200 folks from Baan Nong Kam in Lopburi’s Muang District held a protest June 27 to drive out an area abbot, whom they accused of organising an electrified fence to keep villagers away from his forest temple.One of the protest leaders, 58-year-old Charoen Wongpao, told reporters that Phra Khru Palatwiroj Ophaso, Abbot of Wat Suwanahong Forest, favored to thrust back villagers who went foraging within the woods.People from the village had been collecting vegetation growing within the space for greater than a century earlier than Phra Khru Palatwiroj arrived, K. Don’t worry mentioned, however now they weren’t allowed to even collect tamarind growing close to the temple.Although villagers have been persevering with the abbot’s isolationist antics, they have been sparked into action when he ordered the erection of a barbed-wire fence across the temple.At night, the abbot linked the fence to an electric provide of sufficient voltage to offer nasty electrical shocks to anyone unfortunate sufficient to stumble upon it, K. Charoen stated.The fence runs propert