Government urged to start inquiries into nine cases
Discussed: 12 Jun 2024 at 04: 58
The government is being urged by the National Human Rights Commission ( NHRC ) to seriously pursue the cases that relate to nine self-exiled Thai political activists who have vanished in neighboring countries.
Somboon Muangklam, a senior adviser to Justice Minister Tawee Sodsong and the chairman of the committee on the prevention and suppression of abuse and enforced departure, was the subject of a document that was presented to the NHRC on Tuesday, according to Sayamol Kaiyorawong, a part of the NHRC.
According to Ms. Sayamol, the NHRC has looked into problems about nine missing people who sought social hospital between 2017 and 2021 in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
The absent persons were Ittipon Sukpaen, Wuthipong Kochathamakun, Surachai Danwattananusorn, Chucheep Chiwasut, Kritsana Thapthai, Siam Theerawut and Wanchalearm Satsaksit.
The next two– Chatcharn Buppawan and Kraidej Luelert– are dying. Later in 2018, along the Mekong River’s border with Laos, their bodies were discovered stuffed in masonry.
In all circumstances, parties involved in a violation of the Computer Crime Act, Section 112, or social security were found to be in jeopardized.
The NHRC claimed that the government has been careless in prosecuting the suspects, and that they have had no confidence in the prosecution of them, giving them the impression that state authorities may have been involved.
The NHRC discovered that state organizations had allegedly worked with the governments of the neighboring nations to decipher the circumstances and investigate the circumstances in order to find out the identities of the remaining seven campaigners.
State firms must abide by legal methods to demonstrate why they disappeared and take the perpetrators, if applicable, to fairness, it said.
The government must also pay compensation to their families in accordance with the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act BE 2565 ( 2022 ), the organization added.
The NHRC even made a point that the government’s obligations under the provisions of the Get 2544 Criminal Case Act, which includes damages for the injured man and payment and expenses for the accused in criminal cases, are inapplicable.
However, there was no evidence that condition agencies have provided various forms of payment to the impacted families, it noted.
The missing activists ‘ inclusion in a team with viewpoints that were unconstitutional, according to Ms. Sayamol, also demonstrates that what the results show about are that they belong to a cast that is different from the government’s.
The NHRC furthermore urged the government to ratify the Convention’s Optional Protocol to Another Cruel, Inhumane, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.