Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. Photo: Matichon

 

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

 

PRIME MINISTER PRAYUT Chan-o-cha today (Feb.17) confirmed the Internal Security Operations Command is still needed to run integrated missions and contain threats to national security either from within the country or without.

 

Prayut who made his comment after presiding over a ceremony marking the 58th anniversary of the ISOC concurrently acts as director of the army-led agency.

 

He was apparently responding to yesterday’s call from Move Forward MP Amarat Chokpamitkul for abolition of the deep-state agency which she alleged to have primarily looked to suppress pro-democracy, human rights activists, especially in the southernmost provinces.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2023/02/17/isoc-needed-for-national-security-related-missions-prayut/

 

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ISOC is the agency the dinosaurs call when they feel threatened by change.

For those unfamiliar, ISOC = STASI

 

 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

contain threats to national security either from within the country or without.

 

Again, for those unfamiliar, the "I" in ISOC stands for "Internal".

 

Read about Thailand's “red drum” (thang daeng) killings.

 

Now they mostly "manage" opposition politicians, activists and student protesters.

30 minutes ago, bamnutsak said:

For those unfamiliar, ISOC = STASI

 

 

 

Again, for those unfamiliar, the "I" in ISOC stands for "Internal".

 

Read about Thailand's “red drum” (thang daeng) killings.

 

Now they mostly "manage" opposition politicians, activists and student protesters.

These nationalist "black groups" have been active for quite some time.....going back as far as the Thanarat and Kittikachom era and most prominent during the '70s and '90s uprisings. 

14 minutes ago, zzaa09 said:

These nationalist "black groups" have been active for quite some time.....going back as far as the Thanarat and Kittikachom era and most prominent during the '70s and '90s uprisings. 

Correct.

 

It as previously called the Communist Suppression Operations Command (CSOC)