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Thai PM: I will punish those who threatened human trafficking whistleblower
Thailand’s military ruler Prayuth Chan-ocha calls for Police Major General Paween Pongsirin to return home from Australia to file lawsuits
Major General Paween Pongsirin in Melbourne; he is seeking political asylum in
Australia. Photograph: Meredith O'Shea for the Guardian
Oliver Holmes in Bangkok
Wednesday 16 December 2015 16.00 AEDT
Last modified on Wednesday 16 December 2015 21.24 AEDT
Thailand’s junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha has called for a whistleblowing police officer who fled to Australia to
return, promising to punish influential figures the officer said want to kill him for exposing their role in human trafficking.
Revealed: Thailand's most senior human trafficking investigator to seek political asylum in Australia
Read more - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/10/thailands-most-senior-human-trafficking-investigator-to-seek-political-asylum-in-australia
“Tell me now, who threatened you? It is no matter how big they are, I will have them punished,” Prayuth told reporters.
Police Major General Paween Pongsirin told Guardian Australia .. http://www.theguardian.com/au?INTCMP=CE_AU .. and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation last week that he was in Melbourne to claim political asylum after he found senior members in the military and police were involved in the illicit trade.
“I don’t understand why he [Paween] has to flee and seek political asylum in Australia. He should come home to file lawsuits against the alleged persons,” Prayuth added.
On Monday, Thailand’s deputy head of the attorney general’s human trafficking case office, Prayuth Sattayarak, suggested Paween might testify against the alleged aggressors via a video-link, according to the local Nation .. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Trafficking-investigator-can-testify-via-video-lin-30274938.html .. news website.
The offers to help Paween sit in stark contrast to comments on Friday by Royal Thai police chief Jakthip Chaijinda, who said police were considering a defamation case .. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/11/thailand-considers-defamation-case-against-human-trafficking-investigator .. against Paween, a criminal charge in Thailand.
The police say Paween never filed internal complaints when he was allegedly threatened.
Dismayed by being blacklisted in a US report for the second consecutive year .. http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jun/20/thai-government-us-human-trafficking-report .. for not combatting modern-day slavery, Thailand said it had made “tangible progress”.
The south-east Asian nation pressed charges against more than 100 people .. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/24/thai-officials-among-more-than-100-charged-with-human-trafficking , including an army general, on counts of human trafficking after dozens of bodies were found in a jungle prison camp earlier this year.
Many of the exhumed bodies were believed to be Rohingya .. http://www.theguardian.com/world/rohingya .. Muslims, a long-persecuted minority who have been fleeing Myanmar .. http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/oct/21/thousands-rohingya-refugees-flee-boat-looming-disaster-amnesty .
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Paween led the investigation and he said he uncovered a major human trafficking syndicate but that “from the beginning” he was under pressure not to pursue the perpetrators too enthusiastically.
He resigned from the force last month after he was transferred against his will to an insurgency-plagued region in the deep south of Thailand .. http://www.theguardian.com/world/thailand . He said traffickers he was pursuing were influential in this region and “senior police” in the area were involved. He told his superiors that he feared for his life, but says his protests were ignored.
Paween did not name the senior officials he alleges are complicit in the human trafficking trade.
The investigation he led was disbanded after just five months, although Thai police say witnesses in human-trafficking cases will testify next week and throughout 2016 in an ongoing case.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/16/thai-pm-i-will-punish-those-who-threatened-human-trafficking-whistleblower
.. from previous ..
Thailand's former army chief, Prayuth Chan-ocha, calls for understanding of his democracy style
7.30 By South East Asia correspondent Samantha Hawley
Updated Thu at 2:07am
Video: What happens when a foreign journalist challenges the Thai PM over his dictatorship? (7.30)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-01/what-happens-when-a-foreign-journalist-challenges/6366302
Related Story: Thai PM Prayuth says he has power to execute reporters
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-25/thai-pm-prayuth-says-has-power-to-execute-reporters/6348454
See also:
The Threat Is Already Inside
And, no, it’s not just Islam.
You can’t even count on Buddhists to be peaceful: On Oct. 23, 2012, for instance, Buddhist militants attacked the Burmese village of Yan Thei
.. https://www.hrw.org/report/2013/04/22/all-you-can-do-pray/crimes-against-humanity-and-ethnic-cleansing-rohingya-muslims ..
and massacred at least 70 people, including 28 children, most of whom were hacked to death.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=119135839
Thailand’s military ruler Prayuth Chan-ocha calls for Police Major General Paween Pongsirin to return home from Australia to file lawsuits
Major General Paween Pongsirin in Melbourne; he is seeking political asylum in
Australia. Photograph: Meredith O'Shea for the Guardian
Oliver Holmes in Bangkok
Wednesday 16 December 2015 16.00 AEDT
Last modified on Wednesday 16 December 2015 21.24 AEDT
Thailand’s junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha has called for a whistleblowing police officer who fled to Australia to
return, promising to punish influential figures the officer said want to kill him for exposing their role in human trafficking.
Revealed: Thailand's most senior human trafficking investigator to seek political asylum in Australia
Read more - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/10/thailands-most-senior-human-trafficking-investigator-to-seek-political-asylum-in-australia
“Tell me now, who threatened you? It is no matter how big they are, I will have them punished,” Prayuth told reporters.
Police Major General Paween Pongsirin told Guardian Australia .. http://www.theguardian.com/au?INTCMP=CE_AU .. and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation last week that he was in Melbourne to claim political asylum after he found senior members in the military and police were involved in the illicit trade.
“I don’t understand why he [Paween] has to flee and seek political asylum in Australia. He should come home to file lawsuits against the alleged persons,” Prayuth added.
On Monday, Thailand’s deputy head of the attorney general’s human trafficking case office, Prayuth Sattayarak, suggested Paween might testify against the alleged aggressors via a video-link, according to the local Nation .. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Trafficking-investigator-can-testify-via-video-lin-30274938.html .. news website.
The offers to help Paween sit in stark contrast to comments on Friday by Royal Thai police chief Jakthip Chaijinda, who said police were considering a defamation case .. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/11/thailand-considers-defamation-case-against-human-trafficking-investigator .. against Paween, a criminal charge in Thailand.
The police say Paween never filed internal complaints when he was allegedly threatened.
Dismayed by being blacklisted in a US report for the second consecutive year .. http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jun/20/thai-government-us-human-trafficking-report .. for not combatting modern-day slavery, Thailand said it had made “tangible progress”.
The south-east Asian nation pressed charges against more than 100 people .. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/24/thai-officials-among-more-than-100-charged-with-human-trafficking , including an army general, on counts of human trafficking after dozens of bodies were found in a jungle prison camp earlier this year.
Many of the exhumed bodies were believed to be Rohingya .. http://www.theguardian.com/world/rohingya .. Muslims, a long-persecuted minority who have been fleeing Myanmar .. http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/oct/21/thousands-rohingya-refugees-flee-boat-looming-disaster-amnesty .
[ The People vs. The Monks
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=103038540 .. and in reply ..
Myanmar Collects Temporary ID Cards from Rohingya Muslims
.. video .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=113742734 ]
Paween led the investigation and he said he uncovered a major human trafficking syndicate but that “from the beginning” he was under pressure not to pursue the perpetrators too enthusiastically.
He resigned from the force last month after he was transferred against his will to an insurgency-plagued region in the deep south of Thailand .. http://www.theguardian.com/world/thailand . He said traffickers he was pursuing were influential in this region and “senior police” in the area were involved. He told his superiors that he feared for his life, but says his protests were ignored.
Paween did not name the senior officials he alleges are complicit in the human trafficking trade.
The investigation he led was disbanded after just five months, although Thai police say witnesses in human-trafficking cases will testify next week and throughout 2016 in an ongoing case.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/16/thai-pm-i-will-punish-those-who-threatened-human-trafficking-whistleblower
.. from previous ..
Thailand's former army chief, Prayuth Chan-ocha, calls for understanding of his democracy style
7.30 By South East Asia correspondent Samantha Hawley
Updated Thu at 2:07am
Video: What happens when a foreign journalist challenges the Thai PM over his dictatorship? (7.30)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-01/what-happens-when-a-foreign-journalist-challenges/6366302
Related Story: Thai PM Prayuth says he has power to execute reporters
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-25/thai-pm-prayuth-says-has-power-to-execute-reporters/6348454
See also:
The Threat Is Already Inside
And, no, it’s not just Islam.
You can’t even count on Buddhists to be peaceful: On Oct. 23, 2012, for instance, Buddhist militants attacked the Burmese village of Yan Thei
.. https://www.hrw.org/report/2013/04/22/all-you-can-do-pray/crimes-against-humanity-and-ethnic-cleansing-rohingya-muslims ..
and massacred at least 70 people, including 28 children, most of whom were hacked to death.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=119135839
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