A photo collage of 24 children that were killed after a former police officer in rural Thailand shot and stabbed 36 people in a preschool in October | VIA THE NEW YORK TIMES

 

BY RYN JIRENUWAT AND SUI-LEE WEE
THE NEW YORK TIMES

 

UTHAI SAWAN, THAILAND – When a former police officer in rural Thailand shot and stabbed more than two dozen children as they napped in their preschool in October, the episode became the worst mass shooting by a lone attacker in Thailand’s history.

 

After the attack — which killed 36 people, 24 of them children — Thai authorities ordered law enforcement agencies to tighten gun ownership rules in Thailand, which has more guns than anywhere else in Southeast Asia.

 

But little else has changed. And the families continue to grieve.

 

Many of the children were cared for by their grandparents as their parents worked in faraway cities. “These kinds of families — we call them ‘skipped-generation families,’” said Patcharin Lapanun, an assistant professor at Thailand’s Khon Kaen University.

 

Full story: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/03/05/asia-pacific/thailand-massacre-generations/

 

-- © Copyright The Japan Times 2023-03-07

 

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"But little else has changed. And the families continue to grieve."

Obviously, this atrocity has been viewed by the authorities as an unfortunate crime that needs to be forgotten.

Gun laws here are almost non existent....get a licence.....(pay a bit extra if need be), go to Chinatown and select from hundreds of weapons. That's the legal way.....the illegal way is much easier!