Committee asks institute to testify as cadet’s autopsy report leaked

By The Sunday Nation

 

A FACT-FINDING committee set up by the Supreme Command will invite representatives of the Central Institute of Forensic Science to testify on the autopsy results of a cadet who died at the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School [AFAPS].

 

ACM Chawarat Marungruang, chairman of the committee, was speaking to journalists after unconfirmed reports about the autopsy results were widely shared.

 

According to the reports, which the cadet’s family has declined to confirm, first-year student Phakhapong “Meay” Tanyakan showed signs of physical injuries. 

 

The autopsy is also said to reveal that his fourth rib was broken not because of CPR, as earlier stated by the academy and the Phramongkutklao Hospital, but through blunt force.

 

Chawarat said he has not seen the autopsy report from the institute and he heard that the family had declined to make it public.

 

However, details purportedly from the autopsy have been published widely on social media.

 

“The committee will invite representatives of the institute to testify,” Chawarat said.

 

But he said the autopsy result was only the end result and his committee had already interviewed 40 witnesses, including teachers and students. 

 

He said his panel is expected to complete its probe in the coming days and will submit its report to Supreme Commander General Tharnchaiyan Srisuwan on December 14.

 

The case captured national attention after Phakhapong’s family came forward last month to demand a transparent inquiry into his death.

His organs, which were removed in the first autopsy at the military-run Phramongkutklao Hospital, were later sent for a second autopsy at the institute. 

 

The family has said they thought Phakhapong might have been killed by senior students as part of a punishment, and not by cardiac arrest as the academy had claimed.

 

The cadet died on October 17. The school and Phramongkutklao Hospital stated in his initial death certificate, and in the hospital autopsy report, that he died of heart failure.

 

Phakhapong’s sister, Supicha Tanyakan, posted on her Facebook wall that the family would not give up its fight. “We will fight until the end and the autopsy results will be used in the court fight,” she said in the post.

 

She also stated that cremation rites for her brother would be held at 3.30pm today at Wat Wewikarm in Tambon Bang Phra in Chon Buri’s Sri Racha district.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30333574

 

 

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5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

But he said the autopsy result was only the end result and his committee had already interviewed 40 witnesses, including teachers and students. 

And then he went to make some phone calls: 1-800-SCAPEGOATNOW

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The autopsy is also said to reveal that his fourth rib was broken not because of CPR, as earlier stated by the academy and the Phramongkutklao Hospital, but through blunt force.

Time for the Thai medical council to step in to see if some medical licenses need to be revoked.

Followed by a criminal investigation to see if the person who did the autopsy (at the hospital and at the academy) needs to be prosecuted.

Maybe a further investigation into the hospital and previous cases they handled.

 

Or...

 

Just don't mention it anymore in the news and let it all go by without doing anything.

 

 

Which will it be?

This can be likened to the prosecutor that's supposed to be neutral. Call in the defendant to get all the information. Then go ahead and prosecute that defendant will all the gleaned information. 

This family has so far been able to keep things close to the chest to avoid the forced cover up. 

They are up against an army of people used to having things silenced. Pun ? 

Be strong. 

7 hours ago, rooster59 said:

A FACT-FINDING committee set up by the Supreme Command

The military-led government and military just can't bring themselves to avoiding at least a perceived conflict of interest. For a PM who promised his government to be a shining example of transparency, a fact-finding committee set up by the military supreme command shattered that promise.