Mother says report on cadet’s death ‘distorts truth’

By The Nation

 

Photo from Facebook of Sukanya Tanyakan

 

The mother of Phakhapong “Meay” Tanyakan yesterday raised suspicions about the military investigation committee’s report into the 18-year-old cadet’s death, saying it distorted the truth.

 

Sukanya Tanyakan also pointed out in a Facebook post that the committee had slandered her son by saying that he did not respect seniority.

 

Her comments came after the results of a military investigation committee into the death at the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School (AFAPS) were revealed on Friday. The committee concluded that Phakhapong died from poor health, which ultimately resulted in heart failure.

 

Even though it was admitted that the cadet had been severely punished prior to his death, the committee claimed that this was not the cause of his death.

 

The military investigation’s conclusion contradicted not only the family’s belief that Phakhapong was healthy and did not die from heart failure, but the result of an autopsy conducted by the Central Institute of Forensic Science. The autopsy reportedly noted that the cadet’s body had bruises and a broken rib that may have been caused by a physical attack.

 

The first suspicious point that Sukanya noticed was in CCTV footage from the morning of October 17,  the day he died,  showing her son carrying a cloth basket. She said this had been recorded at what should have been a study time for the military student.

 

Moreover, she pointed out that the military said no one had harmed her son on October 17, but did not disclose footage from the day earlier, when Phakhapong had been severely punished. For October 16, the military had only released CCTV footage from the afternoon, and not for four hours in the morning.

 

Addressing the military’s claim that Phakhapong’s body had many bruises because he had fallen from a ladder, Sukanya stressed that the CCTV footage only showed that her son had been carried down from the ladder, but there was no clear footage to show that he had fallen from it.

 

She also noted that the military had said her son suffered from hyperventilation, as did many other cadets. If that was the case, then the military should do something to prevent it, she said.

 

“It is also very embarrassing that the military blamed my son, saying that it was his mistake for not thanking the senior students, so he was punished. This is a slander of a dead person.”

 

It was reported earlier that the family was determined to pursue a lawsuit against the military for the death of their only son.

 

Meanwhile, juvenile rights activist Ticha Na Nakorn said the committee’s report strongly signified that the military did not have a good strategy to solve social conflicts. Instead, their efforts to clear themselves had backfired on the army.

 

Ticha has also strongly urged Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwon to resign over his inappropriate comments about the death of the cadet. 

 

Prawit said that corporal punishment was common and that he had lost consciousness when he was once punished at the AFAPS as a cadet, but had survived.

 

Ticha’s petition on Change.org has already reached more than 5,000 signatures, while another online petition urging all officers responsible for Phakhapong’s death to resign has gained more than 80,000 signatures.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30334120

 

 

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Either his mother is too polite, or it has lost a lot in translation. She should have come out and called it what is is, a stinking pile of unadulterated bullshit.

Edited December 16, 20178 yr by darksidedog

I cannot imagine the pain that this poor woman is feeling. Worse is the knowledge that there will never be proper closure because the military wants to save face; imagine waking every morning to that thought.

 

The military seems to believe that covering up nonsense like this shows the forces in a good light. The reality is that this kind of thing, which occurs far too often, tarnishes and taints everyone who wears a uniform.

 

Enough.

Totally agree with Bodoh above.  Why do Thais never hold their hands up and apologise and accept that it is human to make mistakes.  The more the military and/or police in other cases wriggle and lie, the worse they look in the public's eye.

1 hour ago, darksidedog said:

Either his mother is too polite, or it has lost a lot in translation. She should have come out and called it what is is, a stinking pile of unadulterated bullshit.

sadly she would be charged under the draconian defamation laws

probably chuck in sedition for good measure

22 hours ago, AGareth2 said:

sadly she would be charged under the draconian defamation laws

probably chuck in sedition for good measure

wouldn't put it past them to do just that; make a right proper, compound,grand <deleted>up

1 hour ago, darksidedog said:

Either his mother is too polite, or it has lost a lot in translation. She should have come out and called it what is is, a stinking pile of unadulterated bullshit.

You must report your evidence to the parents.

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

Mother says report on cadet’s death ‘distorts truth’

we need more cases like this exposed publicly,  along the way it will remind the military that there Is a public ( that they supposedly report to)

The government has distorted thinking either due to the quantities of drugs or wealth that it's members have come into.

Careful,.... defamation charges incoming....


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22 hours ago, mikebell said:

Totally agree with Bodoh above.  Why do Thais never hold their hands up and apologise and accept that it is human to make mistakes.  The more the military and/or police in other cases wriggle and lie, the worse they look in the public's eye.

Which is what is needed- at some point people will say enough and the boil can be lanced, until then social media is the only way to highlight abuse.

 

I'm not always a fan of it but it has the effect of causing people to lose face- to them that's more important than anything else.

6 hours ago, AGareth2 said:

sadly she would be charged under the draconian defamation laws

probably chuck in sedition for good measure

Yes, it wouldn't surprise me if this isn't the next development in this case. 

11 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Either his mother is too polite, or it has lost a lot in translation. She should have come out and called it what is is, a stinking pile of unadulterated bullshit.

That would be far too kind as a meaningful comment. ?

9 hours ago, mikebell said:

Totally agree with Bodoh above.  Why do Thais never hold their hands up and apologise and accept that it is human to make mistakes.  The more the military and/or police in other cases wriggle and lie, the worse they look in the public's eye.

Wriggle, they could wriggle under the belly of a snake that's been flattened on the highway. 

12 hours ago, rooster59 said:

saying it distorted the truth.

course it does, yet truth, like life here, doesnt have all that much value;

wishing she will receive better than we all think 

In another article they said he fell down the stairs. 

But what I really don't understand is why the hospital removed his organs and kept them. 

Why would they remove his stomach and kidney. 

3 minutes ago, greenchair said:

In another article they said he fell down the stairs. 

But what I really don't understand is why the hospital removed his organs and kept them. 

Why would they remove his stomach and kidney. 

2

Evidence of a fatal beating.

 

As for "falling down stairs", they can't even coordinate their lies...

4 hours ago, Media1 said:

Good luck to you. Generals in my country Australia are a proven commodity. Served and respected. I did my training in Seymour Victoria and served in Iraq..

What about yourself buddy. And one has everything to do with the other. Untrained bananas that couldn't earn the respect of his own wife. You would not have a clue about what I refer to. I also have no care about spelling for you lol. 

"Generals in my country Australia are a proven commodity. Served and respected".

So any officers who have not "served" (presumably you mean in a war?) are not to be respected?  That applies to Australians also then, yes?

 

"I did my training in Seymour Victoria and served in Iraq.."

I'm sure you did  but so what?  What are you trying to say?  What is the significance of Seymour Victoria?

 

"What about yourself buddy"

What about me?  How is that your business?  Now you're really making it sound as though you think that because you were in the forces you're somehow better than others.

 

"And one has everything to do with the other."

It hasn't.  Your ex-job has nothing whatsoever to do with this enquiry.  What are you talking about?

 

"You would not have a clue about what I refer to".

You really think so?  So why not try to explain it to me, then?

 

You seem to think that I care about your spelling, where did you get that from, I don't.   It was the irony that amused me.

4 hours ago, Just Weird said:

Their ribbons are "meaningless" and their badges are "pretentious"?  Says who, and based on what?  "Ludicrously inflated ranks", again, who says that their ranks are "inflated" and what do you mean by that? 

 

Your last sentence confirms just how little you really know about the members of the Thai armed forces.

Well, please do inform us of how his assesment is wrong and explain how you know better thanks.

Grammar police posts and replies have been removed, this topic is not about the proper use of grammar or spelling. 

 

Off topic posts and replies have been removed. 

7 hours ago, kaorop said:

Well, please do inform us of how his assesment is wrong and explain how you know better thanks.

No reason for me to do that, he was the one making the bizarre assertions, thanks.

4 hours ago, Just Weird said:

No reason for me to do that, he was the one making the bizarre assertions, thanks.

Not bizzare to most, other than you, but obviously you cant make an argument and chose just to be a naysayer..and with that you fit your member name so well, but not in a good way and i bid you farewell.