NCPO urged to tackle violence against women, children

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NCPO urged to tackle violence against women, children
By Digital Content



BANGKOK, July 9 -- Thailand’s Foundation for Women and women's networks called on the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to tackle violence against women and children and called for the resignation of the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) governor after a girl was raped and killed on a train.

Representatives of Foundation for Women (FFW), together with regional and Bangkok-based women's networks, submitted a proposal to the NCPO at the Government House Center for Public Service in Bangkok on Wednesday to end violence against children and women after a 13-year-old girl was raped and killed on a Bangkok-bound train from the southern province of Surat Thani before being thrown out of the moving train.

The proposal includes a request to the Royal Thai Police for female police officers to investigate crimes against women and children to be posted throughout the country, eradication of obscene and pornographic materials, prevention of sexual assaults and nightclub zoning.

Regional Women's Networks representative Suree Chaisukuman also called for the railway governor Prapat Chongsanguan to resign to show responsibility and requested overall train safety and security improvements to prevent similar incidents from occurring in future.

Bangkok Social Development Volunteer chairman Sasithorn Kaliwang suggested that police officers patrol every half hour on the train and requested clean and safe toilets, safer doors to sleeping areas and prohibition of smoking and alcohol. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2014-07-09

[UbonRatch]

Police to patrol every half hour?

Who employs them, as much as the bed sheet changers?

Why not drive a train into Soi Cowboy, and see how far it eradicates things? I'd sure like to know which police captain is in control of that street. Maybe, better not, as Chalerm was last seen walking free at a funeral. He has a habit of visiting funerals, especially when his sons are in town.

Edited July 9, 2014 by UbonRatch

[peterb0576]

why don't they ask about maintenance payments for the children while they are at it

[noitom]

"Nightclub" is a Thai euphemism for bar prostitution.

[DrTuner]

Sure, eradicate the nightclubs.

Just get on with it and prevent the tourists from entering all together. No need to dance about it. Now is a good time to replicate the success of the western neighbor.

[rubl]

With all these requests which in many cases can only be tackled by changing the mindset of a population, the Thai seem to ask for the NCPO to stay a wee bit longer than they planned to

It seems that with any new item where someone does something terrible the NCPO is asked or urged to 'act'. Maybe 50% urging from the NCPO itself and 50% by a Thai population really fed up with political inactivity on these issues ?

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CRIME
Victim of rape on train in 2001 speaks up
The Nation


Women's right advocates urge the junta to solve the violence against women and children yesterday at the Government House.

Breaks silence after recent attack on teen, urges harsher punishment

BANGKOK: -- A THAI WOMAN lost her bright career, her optimism and her ability to continue living in Thailand after a State Railway of Thailand (SRT) employee raped her on a train 13 years ago.

The case made big news in 2001, but sadly it was insufficient to nudge relevant authorities into ensuring the safety of all passengers on SRT trains.

On July 6 this year, another SRT employee raped and killed a 13-year-old girl while she was travelling on a Bangkok-bound train.

The girl's tragic fate has made headlines not just in Thailand, but also beyond.

When the older victim read the report in Greece, where she now lives, she collapsed in distress. After regaining consciousness, she began to write an open letter that was finally sent to Thai media.

"Why did it happen again?" she asked.

Her letter was addressed to the chief of the National Council for Peace and Order and to the SRT.

She decided to speak up after having stayed silent for so long. To date, the SRT has not paid her any compensation for the ordeal she suffered while riding on one of its trains 13 years ago.

Haunted by the trauma, the victim decided to leave Thailand and try to start a new life in Greece.

However, the devastating effects of the sexual attack continue to hurt her, no matter where she now is physically.

"I am now a living-dead," she lamented.

In her letter, she disclosed that she had suffered every single day throughout the past 13 years.

She said that following the rape, she needed years-long psychiatric treatment, due to nightmares, fear of people, and insomnia.

"Years-long dependence on drugs has affected my physical health. My hands now shake," she added.

She recounted how the rape had caused her humiliation and shattered her bright career.

"That train trip was a work trip. The company felt uncomfortable [about what happened] and in the end I was pressured to quit my job," she said.

Her attacker was sentenced to nine years in jail, and her compensation lawsuit is now pending in the Supreme Court, as the SRT appealed against a lower court's verdict that had ruled in her favour.

However, this victim has decided to write an open letter now not because she wants to press her case.

"In typing this letter, I am trying to communicate with Thais. Isn't it time for us to start doing something to ensure that Thai society is safer?" she said.

She also said she hoped harsher punishments would be prescribed against rapists, and measures taken to prevent a recurrence of such attacks as she and the 13-year-old girl had suffered.

"Please take these steps because they should be able to reduce or even prevent such attacks from taking place," she said.

A part of her letter also attacked the current governor of the SRT, Prapat Chongsa-nguan, for saying that there had never been any serious crime on trains on the Bangkok-bound route until this month.

"How can he fail to notice that a rape had happened on the SRT train before this?" she said.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Victim-of-rape-on-train-in-2001-speaks-up-30238159.html


-- The Nation 2014-07-10

[Dario]

To put a complete ban on all the senseless, violent Thai soap operas would be #1 if I were a key member of the NCPO. Guaranteed there would be less violent crimes against women in Thailand. Period.

Edited July 10, 2014 by Dario

[DrTuner]

To put a complete ban on all the senseless, violent Thai soap operas would be #1 if I were a key member of the NCPO. Guaranteed there would be less violent crimes against women in Thailand. Period.

Egg or chicken ?