Army chief defends use of conscripts as domestic workers
By Coconuts Bangkok


Photo: Michael Coghlan

BANGKOK: -- The army chief has defended the use of conscripts as domestic workers at the homes of military bosses after a seaman complained about the way he was treated.

Deputy Defence Minister and army chief Udomdej Sitabutr backed the practice as users on social media raised their concerns after a seaman complained of abuse by his boss.

“Right now, we don’t call them ‘servant soldiers’ anymore. This word doesn’t exist. Right now, we call them ‘service soldiers’ who have a duty to assist their commanders,” he said.

The seaman conscript, Anek Polthongwijit, alleged Rear Admiral Benjaporn Bawornsuwan, in Nakhon Pathom, chained him up as punishment after he failed to perform tasks to his satisfaction. The rear admiral denied the allegation, reported the Bangkok Post.

“People who sign up for this work do so voluntarily. They want to have a living that is different to the barracks [read more]

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2015/08/25/army-chief-defends-use-conscripts-domestic-workers

-- Coconuts Bangkok 2015-08-25

Being chained up like a dog is surely "different" from a life at the barracks

Right now, we dont call them servant soldiers anymore. This word doesnt exist. Right now, we call them service soldiers who have a duty to assist their commanders, he said.

Call them anything you like, but they are conscripts there against their will. Some would call that 'slavery'.

Whether they call them servant soldiers or service soldiers doesn't matter. There is nothing "military" in what these kids are asked to do do. This is a carry-over from the corvee labor mentality of old and should be stopped. If these officers need servants, gardeners, etc, they should hire and pay them as employees like everyone else (should).

It's hard to get good help these days...

Anek allegedly exposed himself to the rear admiral’s wife. Benjaporn claims the conscript stood under a tree and masturbated while watching his wife through a window.

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Edited August 25, 201510 yr by resimi

This case relates to a retired officer , so any possible justication on the grounds of needs is spurious and fanciful.

...and is this how so many officers accumulate 'unusual' wealth....by having taxpayers pick up the tab for everything they need or want. Scandalous.

Thailand is in many, many, aspects still living in the dark middle ages! That mainly because of the so-called 'elites' (old and new) who are also the ones living like leeches, from the blood and sweat of the regular Thai population. All these parasites should be kicked out, old nobility, 'Chinese merchants', higher civil servants, and, of course, the brown and green mafia organisations! Not in the next lifetime I'd say, as they have together a firmer grip over the whole country than 20 years ago. But one day it will come, and when not through evolution, than r-evolution it could alas well be. Nobody there yet, rather nobody left, to start it up and support it, IMO part of the 'collateral damage' created by the wich hunt organised by the CIA after WW2, wherein anyone from bright red to pale pink, was considered an enemy of the country, and had to be 'eliminated', in one way or another, by military, police, murder squads, and courts!

It's hard to get good help these days...

Anek allegedly exposed himself to the rear admirals wife. Benjaporn claims the conscript stood under a tree and masturbated while watching his wife through a window.

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If these guy is a retired admiral or whatever, what age is his wife??

Maybe wishful thinking on her part lol..

It's hard to get good help these days...

Anek allegedly exposed himself to the rear admirals wife. Benjaporn claims the conscript stood under a tree and masturbated while watching his wife through a window.

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If these guy is a retired admiral or whatever, what age is his wife??

Maybe wishful thinking on her part lol..

Perhaps the masturbating conscript was into "old girls".

It's hard to get good help these days...

Anek allegedly exposed himself to the rear admirals wife. Benjaporn claims the conscript stood under a tree and masturbated while watching his wife through a window.

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If these guy is a retired admiral or whatever, what age is his wife??

Maybe wishful thinking on her part lol..

Perhaps the masturbating conscript was into "old girls".

Maybe she is a hot much younger <deleted>... In Thailand the money gets the honey lol

Two sides to every story.... Maybe the wife led him on etc and the admiral flipped out

Strange that he still kept him after stealing and masterbating for his wife lol

No wonder the local thais do not care about migrant workers being treated like slaves in the fishing and food processing industries as they treat their own the same way especially the poorer thais . This country and its people is beyond salvation. Boycott thai products , services and the country and also treat thais in other countries the way that they treat foreigners in their own....the xenophobic way.

Roger the cabin boy, said Rear Admiral Jitforbrains.

we call them ‘service soldiers’

Yeah, that's so much better. What a bunch idiots.

Edited August 25, 201510 yr by bamnutsak

we call them ‘service soldiers’

Yes darling and bet you like being serviced by them too.....

Edited August 25, 201510 yr by englishoak

Well I just hope she was happy being "serviced" by him.

Maybe he will get decorated for his dedication to the call of duty.

Edited August 25, 201510 yr by davehowden

Being chained up like a dog is surely "different" from a life at the barracks

As is having stealing from your boss and having a wank in front of your boss's wife.

Right now, we dont call them servant soldiers anymore. This word doesnt exist. Right now, we call them service soldiers who have a duty to assist their commanders, he said.

Call them anything you like, but they are conscripts there against their will. Some would call that 'slavery'.

The more rational wouldn't though.

Whether they call them servant soldiers or service soldiers doesn't matter. There is nothing "military" in what these kids are asked to do do. This is a carry-over from the corvee labor mentality of old and should be stopped. If these officers need servants, gardeners, etc, they should hire and pay them as employees like everyone else (should).

The soldiers volunteer for the positions, can't you read?

Being chained up like a dog is surely "different" from a life at the barracks

As is having stealing from your boss and having a wank in front of your boss's wife.

We don't know the details, the young boy is not logged in here to defend himself...

Maybe the old cow flirted with him first or maybe she even polished his gun

Whether they call them servant soldiers or service soldiers doesn't matter. There is nothing "military" in what these kids are asked to do do. This is a carry-over from the corvee labor mentality of old and should be stopped. If these officers need servants, gardeners, etc, they should hire and pay them as employees like everyone else (should).

The soldiers volunteer for the positions, can't you read?

And you obviously believe everything you read.

Being chained up like a dog is surely "different" from a life at the barracks

As is having stealing from your boss and having a wank in front of your boss's wife.

We don't know the details, the young boy is not logged in here to defend himself...

Maybe the old cow flirted with him first or maybe she even polished his gun

No young boys involved here, only conscripted soldiers, and just as the soldier concerned is not logged in here neither is his boss to defend your imaginative "like a dog" additional detail to the report.

I doubt also that his wife is here to defend your moronically juvenile accusation of her being an old cow.

It's hard to get good help these days...

Anek allegedly exposed himself to the rear admiral’s wife. Benjaporn claims the conscript stood under a tree and masturbated while watching his wife through a window.

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Surely he's likely to be a discharged seaman after that episode.

Being chained up like a dog is surely "different" from a life at the barracks

As is having stealing from your boss and having a wank in front of your boss's wife.

We don't know the details, the young boy is not logged in here to defend himself...

Maybe the old cow flirted with him first or maybe she even polished his gun

No young boys involved here, only conscripted soldiers, and just as the soldier concerned is not logged in here neither is his boss to defend your imaginative "like a dog" additional detail to the report.

I doubt also that his wife is here to defend your moronically juvenile accusation of her being an old cow.

This wouldn't be tolerated in your country. Can't imagine Captain von Trapp being party to such a thing.

Whether they call them servant soldiers or service soldiers doesn't matter. There is nothing "military" in what these kids are asked to do do. This is a carry-over from the corvee labor mentality of old and should be stopped. If these officers need servants, gardeners, etc, they should hire and pay them as employees like everyone else (should).

The soldiers volunteer for the positions, can't you read?

And you obviously believe everything you read.

Why not, it's better than making things up and some of what I read is bound to be true as opposed to the imaginative nonsense spouted by so many here.

No young boys involved here, only conscripted soldiers, and just as the soldier concerned is not logged in here neither is his boss to defend your imaginative "like a dog" additional detail to the report.

I doubt also that his wife is here to defend your moronically juvenile accusation of her being an old cow.

This wouldn't be tolerated in your country. Can't imagine Captain von Trapp being party to such a thing.

My country? What country would that be then? Whatever nationality you think I am is irrelevant as this country is Thailand.

Whether they call them servant soldiers or service soldiers doesn't matter. There is nothing "military" in what these kids are asked to do do. This is a carry-over from the corvee labor mentality of old and should be stopped. If these officers need servants, gardeners, etc, they should hire and pay them as employees like everyone else (should).

The soldiers volunteer for the positions, can't you read?

Does it matter? How is doing housework for ranking officers going to defend the nation? Why should men in uniform be used this way?

The Thai elite, the wealthy, the connected regard working class Thais as low class people......and, as their management of these people indicates, they are no less slave masters than the fisher folk!

An off topic generalization post has been removed as well as the replies.

Whether they call them servant soldiers or service soldiers doesn't matter. There is nothing "military" in what these kids are asked to do do. This is a carry-over from the corvee labor mentality of old and should be stopped. If these officers need servants, gardeners, etc, they should hire and pay them as employees like everyone else (should).

The soldiers volunteer for the positions, can't you read?

And you obviously believe everything you read.

Why not, it's better than making things up and some of what I read is bound to be true as opposed to the imaginative nonsense spouted by so many here.

Now that's one of the most nonsensical posts I have read in a long time, and that's quite an achievement!

Edited August 25, 201510 yr by MZurf

A Burmese trolling post has been removed.