Students demand action to prevent attacks

[snoop1130]

Students demand action to prevent attacks

By Suriya Patathayo 
Jessada Jantarak 
The Nation

 

 

About 50 students marched from their university to the Royal Thai Police headquarters in Bangkok on Friday to demand action against persons attacking their friends.

 

Since 2014, there have been at least seven attacks, resulting in three deaths, on students from Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-ok: Uthenthawai Campus. 

 

Thanit Kanlahasunthorn was one of the fatalities. His father jumped to his death from Bangkok Criminal Court building last month after the only suspect in Thanit’s murder was acquitted. 

 

“Attackers will be emboldened if police cannot nail them down,” a marcher said on condition of anonymity.

 

He said that his group had gathered information on the attacks to help investigations.

 

“We believe the attacks are related to the sense of rivalry among students from another educational institute,” he said. 

 

In Thanit’s case, there were two defendants – one is an adult while the other is a 16-year-old juvenile. The teenage suspect previously pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing Thanit at the Central Juvenile and Family Court, which handled his case because of his young age. 

 

The adult suspect, Nattapong Ngern-khiri, was acquitted due to insufficient evidence. 

 

That acquittal verdict made headlines because it drove Thanit’s father to commit suicide. 

 

Pol Colonel Tanawat Wattanakul, a deputy commander of the Royal Thai Police, accepted the petition from the students on behalf of National Police chief Pol General Chakthip Chaijinda on Friday, and assured them that police would closely monitor the progress of the case. 

 

“We have heard that parents are becoming really worried because the new semester is about to start,” he said. 

 

In a related development, Deputy Metropolitan Police Commissioner Pol Maj General Sompong Chingduang said his team had already talked to public prosecutors and found that it is possible to appeal against the Nattapong’s acquittal. 

 

Sompong, who was named the head of the team to investigate Thanit’s case following the suicide of his father, said his team would not launch a fresh probe but check if the original investigation report was flawed. 

 

 “If flaws are found, policemen in charge of the case will face disciplinary actions,” he said. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30351384

 

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[klauskunkel]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

“If flaws are found, policemen in charge of the case will face disciplinary actions,” he said. 

And I shall roll over and bark at the moon.

[flyingtlger]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

 

“We believe the attacks are related to the sense of rivalry among students from another educational institute,”

"The Land of Smiles"?  More like, "The Land of Thugs"!

 

[connda]

Good for the students attempting to promote positive change in this sometimes backward country. 

[300sd]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Sompong, who was named the head of the team to investigate Thanit’s case following the suicide of his father, said his team would not launch a fresh probe but check if the original investigation report was flawed. 

Yes that's a strong possibility considering that the police do the investigating! Might want to check all investigations over again. Start with bank accounts. The bank accounts of the ones who are being investigated!

[Lupatria]

The way they handle things here I wonder if one of those brilliant "officials" will come up with the solution to employ armed soldiers to control every campus, instead of arresting and punishing the troublemakers, and bar them from any education facility for life.

[Moti24]

1 hour ago, flyingtlger said:

"The Land of Smiles"?  More like, "The Land of Thugs"!

 

"Thugs" starts with a "T";  The word needs to start with an "S", otherwise it just won't relate to "LOS".

[Cheops]

2 hours ago, Moti24 said:

"Thugs" starts with a "T";  The word needs to start with an "S", otherwise it just won't relate to "LOS".

We will change LOS to LOT. There, fixed it for you ?‍♂️