Some 300 members of the People's Network from Four Regions urged Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont and Council for National Security assistant secretary-general General Saprang Kalayanamitr to wipe off debts, as "promised" by the Cabinet on January 16.

Group leader and Northeast farmer Prapas Ngoksungnern said local officials and banks told farmers the Cabinet resolution was not a law and had taken action against debtors.

The network gathered at Government House yesterday demanding the Bank for Agriculture and Agricul-tural Coop-eratives and commercial banks halt action to seize farms in lieu of debt repayments.

It said if the government refused to help it would set up a camp at Government House.

The network delivered their demand to Saprang, because it was he who submitted their concerns to the Cabinet earlier this year.

"Most people hope the Army can help. Some farmers have had their properties seized and have nowhere to live - they have been evicted," Papas said.

"If no one come see us, we'll stay here because there is no place for us to go."

Prapas alleged farmers' problems resulted in part from a "conspiracy" between property investors and the Legal Execution Department. He said property investors wanted to get land.

"If this problem of farmers being sued and evicted and their properties seized remains unsolved we won't be able to earn a living and we won't be able to follow the sufficiency-economy theory," he said.