Student activist leader 'abducted' near Thammasat University

[Rhys]

Well of course, bad news for the detained student.. however... where are his 'so called comrades" are they not there to help, instead of take photos...

[hgma]

Why on earth does going on ,when 'dek' students are abducted while scam frogs leaping up and down the beaches of Phuket.

Don't talk about damaging the nation's image anymore!

[bobmac10]

Snatching student activists of the streets! And so the next phase begins..

Will they admit to having him?

Will they make public where he is?

Will he be allowed a lawyer?

Is it snatching if he has been summoned by a court and refuses to turn himself in ?

(if they deny having him and not sending him to that court but keeping him locked up somewhere I will agree with you but so far that is not clear yet)

Ah yes, I was waiting for you Mr Block.

Always the apologist.

Could it be possible that they didn't want anyone to see him disappear?

If they didn't, then this is the way to do it.

On the other hand, if there is a warrant for his arrest, two policemen could have come around to his house in the day time and arrested him.

[never me]

A good article concerning this matter in a H.R.W. release.

[tbthailand]

Men in military uniform arrested him. They were in uniform and did it quite openly, I cannot see how this is abduction?

and then blind fold him, drive him out to the jungle, make him kneel down, stick "something" hard and round to his head, kick him hit him and threaten him...

we are talking about the Thai military, so yeah, just standard operating procedure... all on the up-n-up...

[NongKhaiKid]

A military court summonsed the student who ignored the summons so I suppose an arrest warrant may have been issued but given the current may not have been necessary. He was taken to a military court by the BIB following arrest and was promptly released.

Now then who authorised the ' arrest ' or was it a rogue action by some soldiers thinking they were doing the right thing to please and who knows maybe land a reward or responding to the loss of face this man is causing ?

One thing we can be quite sure of is there will be no accountabilit, well not publicly anyway, and the situation will never be explained.

[tbthailand]

Was there an arrest warrant? Yes there was.

It means nothing.

In the same way that the junta has taken over the vocabulary of democracy, ... "PM", "NLA", "Cabinet", and yet Thailand has no democracy, the military courts have taken on the vocabulary of justice by issuing summons and arrest warrants, and yet Thailand has no justice.

Does the military tribunal's use of the normal vocabulary of justice make their summons and arrest warrants of civilians legitimate?

These students were arrested for taking a train. This did not violate any laws. This violated a dictate by the military junta against public gatherings*. And the reason the students were on a train was to visit a park with already acknowledged corruption issues. It is rather obvious why students traveling to a park built by the military and riddled with corruption have been arrested and harassed.

The military tribunal issued its arrest "warrant" for the students because the students did not respond to the summons. They did not respond because they do not recognize the legitimacy of the military court to issue an arrest warrant for civilians. The students are right to recognize the reality of the junta's illegitimate activities.

(*right of association is a universal human right, yet the current self-appointed "PM" claims to not violate anyone"s human rights).

[metisdead]

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[springheeled jack]

this junta will go down in history as the worst so far, restricting peoples rights, abductions attitude adjustment these are only some of the crimes the army have inflicted upon the people so far.

[fireplay]

this junta will go down in history as the worst so far, restricting peoples rights, abductions attitude adjustment these are only some of the crimes the army have inflicted upon the people so far.

What about the one that massacred the students and mutilated their dead bodies hanging from trees back in the 70's? That one was pretty bad.