Parliament urged to ratify UN Convention against enforced disappearance

 

Photo from FB : Angkhana Neelapaijit Angkhana (left) and the widow of ‘Billy’ and her daughter (right)

 

A former national human rights commissioner has urged the Thai parliament to ratify the United Nations’ Convention against Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance after the now defunct National Legislative Assembly (NLA) failed to endorse the bill.

 

Writing on her Facebook page today, in the wake of the Department of Special Investigation’s breakthrough in the investigation into the disappearance of Karen activist Polajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen, Mrs. Angkhana Neelapaijit, citing the 2019 report of the UN Human Rights Council, said that, with 83 cases, Thailand ranks third in ASEAN, after the Philippines and Indonesia, for the number of enforced disappearances.

 

The cases include those related to the Black May incident in 1992, in which 40 people went missing without a trace, 31 cases concerning the unrest in southern Thailand and several others, including that of her own husband, human rights lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/parliament-urged-to-ratify-un-convention-against-enforced-disappearance/

 

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1 hour ago, webfact said:

national human rights commissioner has urged the Thai parliament to ratify the United Nations’ Convention against Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance

so no more TM30?

Why don't they just ratify "Lip service" oh  no need!

The Disappeared

 

Always a symptom of an undemocratic, authoritarian backwater.

Still waiting for a proper investigation on the Red Drum killings back in the 70's