British woman, 20, left for dead in hit and run motorbike crash faces being thrown out of Thai hospital despite horrifying injuries after being hit with £40,000 medical bill
Do you think the horrific videos now coming out of Gaza may have had an impact?
For years, it was known that Hamas tortured and murdered other Gazans. It wasn't just the affiliation of some senior members with with smuggling gangs, the use of children as shields, or the irregular tossing of teenagers off of a building roof. It's the depraved torture of fellow Arabs by Hamas. Some of the videos are ghastly. (They are available on Instagram). In the past month, the flow has increased, and people who Hamas said were killed by Israel, are shown being brutally interrogated by known Hamas officials.
Thai police is far from perfect, but in general, I must say that 20 years ago it was worse, with corruption much more common. It was common for foreigners driving in Bangkok being stopped and being asked for money, even when having done nothing wrong.
I always drove wearing sunglasses, to try to hide that I was a farang until I was so close to the police officers that they couldn't safely stop me. And yet Thai police was already much better than the Indonesian Police, for example.
It's really a long, long time since I paid my last traffic related bribe. Maybe 10 years ago.
And a long time since I paid my very last bribe in Thailand: for smoking in Sukhumvit and not disposing of the butt properly. The fine was 2,000 THB but we amicably agreed on a compromise and set for half of it. This was maybe five years ago. In the meanwhile, I quit smoking.
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