Walk follows a release that the military has outlawed.
PUBLISHED: 23 Sep 2024 at 16: 30
A planned conference and book release for a guide about the role of the military in Thailand at Chulalongkorn University has been abandoned. The plan was to use its campus to host the event.
The conference on safety and the power of the military forces that was scheduled for Friday at the school will now be moved to the Jim Thompson Museum, according to Puangthong Pawakapan, an educational at the Political Science Faculty, in a Facebook post on Monday.
The university professor informed me last week that school officials would not permit any place at Chula to publish the book Infiltrating Society: The Thai Military’s Internal Security Affairs without giving a damned justification,” she wrote.
Despite the change of location, she claimed, and that the International Relations Department also supports the occasion, which she argued is a threat to intellectual freedom.
The Thai translation of her award-winning publication of the same name will have its Friday advantages. The influential Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore published the English edition in 2021. The book is produced in Thailand by Similar Sky Books.
The release comes from a two-year study project that won awards from the school in 2023 and Foreign Affairs publication in 2022.
On May 24 the university’s Twitter page, the university congratulated her on the prize.
The venue’s change of location comes less than two days after the Internal Security Operations Command attacked her on September 14 and accused Ms. Puangthong of “having no certification and skills on safety matters.”
Isoc urged that the text and all associated communities become banned to stop “public misinformation and harm to the armed forces ‘ reputation” It demanded that the school investigate her morals and threatened legal action against the writer.  ,
Two days later, Ms. Puangthong claimed that experts from various international organizations who were studying Thai politics, the defense, and surveillance had scrutinized her studies and publication. Instead of requesting a moratorium and using the law to stifle discussion of the issue, she likewise demanded that Isoc send representatives to the community to exchange opinions in public.
Listeners in the platform on Friday include Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, who co-founded the disbanded Future Forward Party, and Prajk Kongkirati of the Political Science Faculty at Thammasat University. They are well-known when vocal critics of military coups and political intervention by the armed forces.