Fully agree, I regret to say that if the fruit of Danthong's efforts over more than 15 years has been fully gathered in then the basket is disappointingly light.

Danthong appears to fall into one of the many failings of Thai culture, that of equating good intentions with effectiveness. This is not the way forward, we must measure actual results when assessing effectiveness. Not the Thai way I know, but it's the Thai way that has brought us to the present parlous state of human rights.

It's a reasonable starting assumption in Thailand that good things are the result of accident or miscalculation, and bad things happen as a result of malice or incompetence. Thais are much more famous for talking a good game than they are for actually playing a good game, and this applies just as much to human rights as to the state of the roads and traffic. Sadly.

Rich