That's not true in Bangkok & Pattaya and most other places I've seen Songkran. My solution was to leave the country China, The Philippines, South Vietnam , North Vietnam etc.
One hopes you are correct but fears you are not. 30 million Chinese died in the 1950s plus millions more since especially minority group members such as Uyghurs, moslems Christians and others
I thought we all learnt to ignore such characters when we went to India in our teens. Now in our 60s & 70s implausible characters outside airport don't stand a chance- or do they?
That is a very uncharitable point of view. Also it's very vindictive. He deserves to walk free. It's the police and the architecture of law that deserves punishment. They are committing crimes against individual's freedoms all over the state at the moment. This kind of behaviour only adds to reputation of the police. Today they imprisoned a history teacher for THEFT because she had confiscated her kids IPads. They were seven years old. The mother had every right to confiscate the phone.
"Background checks revealed that both men were already on a Tourist Police watchlist of individuals flagged as high-risk for in-flight theft.:
That's a bit big brother