Thai soldier fights for life after being attacked by seniors

[Khun Paul]

Judging by most Thai men, pack mentality, too much testosterone and inflated egos, are the main cause. Lack of Moral compass and supervision is also a cause. Kings Guard, a wai and all is forgiven...….Good Buddhists they are not , n ot one of them including their superiors and officers. Hypocritical children. !!

[TKDfella]

1 hour ago, kaonoister said:

Not yet

And, according to the OP, it was 21 days ago.

[Eric Loh]

13 hours ago, Cadbury said:

The buck stops with the self appointed man at the top who controls the military. 

He maintains his silence while his subordinates beat the crap out of some poor innocent soldier. 

It is only going to get worse. Thailand is morally down the drain.

The last time the self appointed leader spoke was when he defended his deputy who said that corporal punishment was usual and he survived many and moved on. He also said if you were in the army, you can expect this corporal punishment. What hope of stopping this kind of abuses when the leaders treat this lightly and even indirectly condone. 

[Srikcir]

3 minutes ago, Khun Paul said:

Kings Guard

With Prayut and Prawit at the helm of the NCPO and the government, it would be more specifically the Thahan Suea Rachini or "Queen's Tiger Soldiers" aka the Eastern Tigers.

[Sonhia]

Disgusting!

 

The culprits will no doubt deny wrong doing, then will admit to the crime, with smiles, fingers pointing, postulating, merit,  and then all is forgiven and forgotten. Pathetic!

 

Land of smiles!

Harmonious people!

 

Cough!!!

 

If they can do that to their own kind, what could they do to foreigners? Makes me wonder...

[xerostar]

I believe stories of maltreatment of recruits are common in Thailand. That's why a friend paid off a corrupt official in order to remove her son's name from the call-up list. Not that I would have agreed to it either as the boy could have benefited from the experience. Her fear of her son possibily being hurt was a very real, especially as he despised authority and had a contrary attitude making the chances even higher that he'd be severely beaten up, had he been sent to boot camp.

[jossthaifarang]

Well now, another story that is sure to help win the vote next year for Pheu Thai. This is a very clever idea by Thaksin.. Majority of Thai people will be up for the changes these guys have promised..

"Pheu Thai will ban military conscription if voted in"

"PARTY ALSO PLANS TO SELL SUBMARINES AND BUILD HOSPITALS FROM THE PROCEEDS"

 

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30353086

 

[soalbundy]

13 hours ago, kotsak said:

"A Few Good Men" comes in mind..

Code si deng

[Hayduke]

 

Makes you wonder how many times this sort of thing (or worse) has occurred yet gone unreported. Considering the disreputable nature of the RTA, it would seem this is just the tip of a very ugly iceberg.

 

 

Edited September 11, 2018 by Hayduke

[jerojero]

Where is the PM's pontifications on this! Strangely silent. Micro-manages everything else. Sad.

[fullcave]

15 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

Great army.

TIT

[PREM-R]

14 hours ago, kotsak said:

"A Few Good Men" comes in mind..

' The truth?....... Thailand can't handle the truth!'

Edited September 11, 2018 by PREM-R

[cmsally]

This is happening on such a regular basis , one would have to assume there is a high level of mental illness involved.

[edwarda909]

15 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

At least it wasn't covered up as in previous cases.

Let's first see how the trial turns out.

[bubblehead]

Another reason my son won't be conscripted.

[BigT73]

1 hour ago, Khun Paul said:

Judging by most Thai men, pack mentality, too much testosterone and inflated egos, ar

I always thought it was from lack of testosterone otherwise u would fight 1 on 1.

[laocowboy2]

13 hours ago, baboon said:

Well yes. Here we are again and still waiting for the malfeasance charges for allowing this to happen (YET AGAIN) on his watch to be filed against the appropriate minister...

Speaking of watches . . .

[BigT73]

1 hour ago, Chicken George said:

This is what awaits conscrips here?

Conscription should end!

But they induct them so seniors as in higher ranks have a so called job.

Its a military state. Has been for generations. How much more is covered up? I've seen the videos of others having to stand there and take a beating.. Cowards.

Its like they have modelled their army from ww2 Japanese, where each higher ranking personell would beat on whose beneath them all the way down the line.

[thevich2710]

It’s like the poor soles who were killed and Deepcut barracks in the UK massive cover up as one soldier shot himself twice in an alleged   Suicide . As an ex member of the British Army I find the story ludicrous. Such a shame these tuff soldiers have to kill their own to prove what.

its easy to kill somone it’s living with it. R.I.P. 

[neeray]

14 hours ago, baboon said:

Well yes. Here we are again and still waiting for the malfeasance charges for allowing this to happen (YET AGAIN) on his watch to be filed against the appropriate minister...

I seem to recall reading on ThaiVisa a month or two a go that the top brass said this treatment would END !

[Bangkok Barry]

16 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

At least it wasn't covered up as in previous cases.

 

They did try, but family persisted.

[Krataiboy]

15 hours ago, kotsak said:

"A Few Good Men" comes in mind..

Or Calder Willingham's' "End As a Man", a harrowing novel about  going through the meat grinder of a southern US military academy, made into an excellent (black and white!) movie.

 

The fact that such sadistic behavior is still routine here eighty years later is an indictment of the privileged officer class now running not just the armed forces, but the entire bloody country.

[Thingamabob]

Disgusting. All Thais should be ashamed.

[Just Weird]

16 hours ago, YetAnother said:

predictable; 

how magnanimous of the army; they are saying his life is worth 30,000, maybe

"they are saying his life is worth 30,000"

The army has not said that at all, she said that she had been told that he would get that as basic help.  Big difference.  More importantly, he has not died.

[Just Weird]

7 hours ago, Thechook said:

So many of these stories over the years and nothing has changed.  Poor kids conscripted against their will and beaten to death

Someone's been beaten to death in this thread?

[Just Weird]

52 minutes ago, neeray said:

I seem to recall reading on ThaiVisa a month or two a go that the top brass said this treatment would END !

Don't believe everything that is put out on Thaivisa! 

Edited September 11, 2018 by Just Weird

[Colabamumbai]

At least 3 reported incidences in the past 2 months. Prayuth should clean his own house first.

[Just Weird]

14 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Disgusting. All Thais should be ashamed.

All Thais?  Why?  Why not the entire population of the world?

 

Apart from a few involved in this no other Thais had anything to do with it.

[connda]

17 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Asked about financial help from the Royal Thai Army, Rungruedee said she was told he would get about Bt30,000 compensation as basic help.

 

“But to date, we have not yet received the compensation,” she said. 

Amazing Thailand!

[Foexie]

17 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Three soldiers at the camp have confessed to beating him up and apologised to his family. 

That makes everything right .

 

And the 30.000 bht ?! I hope they will get it every month.