Family suspects foul play for the death of their cadet son at school

By Thai PBS

 

 

The family of a military cadet whom the Armed Forces Preparatory School claimed to have died of heart failure has demanded clarification from the school’s management about the actual cause of his death.

 

The family of the victim, Mr Pakapong Tunkarn, first-year cadet, also demanded that the school returns the victim’s missing organs. The victim’s parents, Mr Pichit and Mrs Sukanya Tunkarn, and daughter, Ms Supitcha, told the media at their home in Chon Buri that they questioned the school’s report that Pakapong died of heart failure.

 

Ms Supitcha said after they received the victim’s body from the school, the family had the body sent for an autopsy which showed that the victim bore bruises all over the body with four broken rib bones which were not caused during medical treatment or caused by a fall from a stairway.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/family-suspects-foul-play-death-cadet-son-school/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-11-21

Beaten to death. 

Missing organs?

RIP ....  good boy ..

Being in the army brings risks. As there are limited outside enemies the biggest risk is to be beaten to death by your fellow army men.

38 minutes ago, Bob12345 said:

beaten to death by your fellow army men.

Officers?

2 hours ago, missoura said:

Missing organs?

puzzling; surely a mis-print

1 hour ago, YetAnother said:

puzzling; surely a mis-print

Removed during the autopsy for examination?

Scum

4 hours ago, missoura said:

Missing organs?

Internal organs could show sign of bruising, maybe that is why they are missing !!

7 minutes ago, CatCage said:

Internal organs could show sign of bruising, maybe that is why they are missing !!

The usual B S for a death like this. Nothing new. Just another cover up. 

One family that had the smarts to keep quiet to get their own investigation complete before various government agencies can sort out their stories to cover the army.

 

A new low confiscating the boys organs. How do they know the organs weren't sold to order. 

Anything can happen. 

Military school says student died of heart attack, parents find organs missing in secret autopsy

By Coconuts Bangkok

 

The parents and son in happier times. Screenshots: Amarin TV

 

A student was recently found dead with some of his internal organs missing at the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School and his parents are demanding answers.

 

The boy, 18-year-old Pakapong Tanyakan, 18, died on Oct. 17. He was in his first year at the prestigious school. His parents, Pichet and Sukanya Tanyakan, told the media yesterday that they were given no other details on their son’s death. The death certificate presented to the couple, who are professional racecar drivers, seemed suspicious and only stated that the healthy young man died of cardiac arrest.

 

Due to their suspicions, the couple had their son’s body secretly autopsied in Chonburi after it was released for funeral rites.

 

Full story: https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/military-school-says-student-died-heart-attack-parents-find-organs-missing-secret-autopsy/

 

 

-- © Copyright Coconuts Bangkok 2017-11-21

this latest news is SHOCKING!

if true then a very serious crime has taken place

 

Military brass denies parents’ claim that cadet’s organs removed

By Jitraporn Senawong 
The Nation

 

 

Military authorities are on the defensive after the autopsy of a dead cadet reportedly found that his organs and brains had been removed and the body showed signs of blunt force trauma.

Supreme Commander General Thanchaiyan Srisuwan had summoned the chief of the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School (AFAPS) chief in Nakhon Nayok to explain the case involving deceased cadet Phakhapong “Moei” Tanyakan, Royal Thai Armed Forces headquarters spokesman Maj-General Nathaporn Boonngam said on Tuesday. 

 

Thanchaiyan later told Nation TV that the claim that Phakhapong’s organs were missing was untrue and his parents had been told many times that the school had sent the body for an autopsy at Phra Mongkutklao Hospital, where a medical examiner had extracted small pieces of his organs for testing. 

 

He said the case did not involve the theft of organs, adding that bandages found inside the body might have been left during the autopsy. 

 

Thanchaiyan said the school and the family had held funeral rites involving an empty casket to make merit for the deceased cadet. 

 

Ahead of meeting with Thanchaiyan on Tuesday, AFAPS commander Maj-General Kanokpong Channuan told reporters that the issue of missing organs was a medical matter linked to the autopsy. 

 

He added that he, police and the parents had agreed to an autopsy to determine the cause of his “unnatural death”. 

 

Kanokpong said he had prepared medical information to explain the situation to Thanchaiyan. 

 

He added that he had not known that the family retained doubts about the cause of death and submitted the body for another autopsy, resulting in the report about missing organs. 

 

He said he had attended to Phakhapong’s funeral rites every night until the cremation with fellow cadets and teachers.

 

The parents’ claim that Phakhapong had been subjected to physical punishment would, if true, indicate a crime had been committed violating military rules prohibiting cadets from being touched, Kanokpong said. 

 

The parents, Pichet and Sukanya Tanyakan, have told the media that they had not received a detailed explanation on his cause their son’s death, a first-year cadet who died on October 17 one day after returning home from school. 

 

The couple claimed that they only received a death certificate citing the cause of death as sudden cardiac arrest.

 

When the subsequently requested an autopsy, a medical examiner found all of Phakhapong’s internal organs had been removed and cloth or tissue had been stuffed into the skull in place of the brain. 

 

The parents also said the autopsy had found four broken ribs, internal bruises to the right abdomen and left side of the back, and two broken collarbones. 

 

The medical examiner told them that their son’s ribs were probably not broken during CPR and the bruises appeared to be from blunt force trauma.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30332157

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-11-21

4 hours ago, nahkit said:

Removed during the autopsy for examination?

Damaged whilst he was beaten to death, therefore removed (in an autopsy) to prevent the truth getting out.

Poor lad.

Hard to say how and what happened....but the missing organs issue makes it suspicious and does not sound good.

The military and the police are the worst law breakers and offenders. Not a day passed without negative news of these 2 organizations. How on earth can they continue to behave with no accountability and be immune to prosecution is really a sad state of affairs for Thailand.  

It is not unusual - at least in the country where I come from - that organs are removed during an autopsy (for further examination) and some stuff or paper is put into the torso so that it stays in shape from the outside. Also the breastbone is cut into halves so the organs of the chest can be removed. In my country they always make a protocol of the autopsy about the details of the procedure. Would be nice if they have one here - could bring clarity.

And the diagnosis "cardiac arrest" as the cause of death is no  diagnosis. It does not say why the heart action stopped. Shock? trauma? gun shot? beheading? terminal cancer? .... The heart action always stops at death whatever the cause is.

Edited November 21, 20178 yr by sweatalot

Removing the heart would definitely cause cardiac arrest!

Removing the organs is quite macabre....unless he was a registered donor of course.

2 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

The military and the police are the worst law breakers and offenders. Not a day passed without negative news of these 2 organizations. How on earth can they continue to behave with no accountability and be immune to prosecution is really a sad state of affairs for Thailand.  

 

Others officials (i'll leave you to guess which ones) have ignored accountability in this country for decades. 

25 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 

Others officials (i'll leave you to guess which ones) have ignored accountability in this country for decades. 

By accountability,  I meant the law can get to them even on absential. Many here just ignore the law as they are the law. 

7 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

How on earth can they continue to behave with no accountability and be immune to prosecution is really a sad state of affairs for Thailand.  

Because "they" can, and when or ever will the people have a chance to choose another option

Sounds like he was murdered in a hazing incident and then

a cover up. Hopefully the truth will be revealed with the fuss

the parents are raising. RIP young man. 

13 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

The military and the police are the worst law breakers and offenders. Not a day passed without negative news of these 2 organizations. How on earth can they continue to behave with no accountability and be immune to prosecution is really a sad state of affairs for Thailand.  

Oh dear , smells of a cover up again 

12 hours ago, scorecard said:

 

Others officials (i'll leave you to guess which ones) have ignored accountability in this country for decades. 

What is the point of your post? Is it to distract attention from the appalling behaviour of the military and the lack of accountability that Eric Loh has rightly identified? This is a particularly disgusting case but sadly in a long line of abuse in the military.The guilty are never made accountable let alone punished.

 

So why are you babbling in this loathsome way about "other officials"? How in the name of God is that relevant? Is your sense of morality so debased that you have to resort to this?

Military brass denies parents’ claim that cadet’s organs removed

Breaking News November 21, 2017 15:43

By Jitraporn Senawong 
The Nation

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30332157

 

Military admits keeping dead cadet’s innards for medical examination

in Breaking News, General, Highlight | November 21, 2017 | (345 views) | By Thai PBS
http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/military-admits-keeping-dead-cadets-innards-medical-examination/

 

Something is very strange in this reporting ......

 

 

 

There's so much to remember to explain, it must be taxing on the brain. 

Ok we have the "explanation " of the missing brain, stomach and heart. 

How to explain 2 broken colar bones, and 4 broken ribs, that would take some force wouldn't it? 

1 hour ago, greenchair said:

There's so much to remember to explain, it must be taxing on the brain. 

Ok we have the "explanation " of the missing brain, stomach and heart. 

How to explain 2 broken colar bones, and 4 broken ribs, that would take some force wouldn't it? 

, seems like every year some poor bugger dies