Nitirat members file police complaint against potential threats
On 17 Aug, members of the Nitirat group, which consists of young Thammasat University law academics who have proposed amendments to the lèse majesté law and the rewriting of the constitution, went to Chanasongkhram Police Station to file a complaint after mysterious men had been seen at their offices taking photographs of their schedules to meet students.
Some Thammasat University staff took notice of their presence and shot video clips of their activities. So the Nitirat members decided to file a police complaint, so that the police would conduct further investigations, Worachet Pakeerut, a leading member of the group, told Prachatai.
He said that similar incidents had seemed to happen more frequently lately at the campus in Tha Phrachan.
On 10 Aug, Theera Sutheewarangkul, another member of the group, posted on his Facebook page that a cleaner at the Faculty of Law had told him that earlier that month a man of medium build with short hair, a little over 20 years old, claiming to be a student, had come around to ask about the Nitirat group, and after failing to see any of them, had taken photographs of the front of their offices.
Pol Lt Col Phanusak Samersri, an investigator at Chanasongkhram Police Station, said that he would make an entry in the daily police log and would ask the university to provide its security surveillance video footage for the police to investigate and consider whether the men in question had meant any harm.
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"He [Worachet] said that
The Thammasat community must protect their own. The Royal Thai Police, Royal Thai Army, Thammasat Administration ... all are members of the amaat, all seem more likely to hurt the Nitirat than to help them.
A cleaner has stepped forward. I am not at all suprised that an ordinary Thai working person is concerned about the safety of another Thai, especially another Thai bravely confronting the forces of darkness in Thailand on behalf of all Thais. How about the students? Are there student groups rotating watchful hours over their faculty? It should be clear to all the the RTP/RTA/Amaat think assassinating those they view as political opponents is perfectly OK. Assassination - like lese majeste charges, torture, disappearance - is just one of their weapons against the Thai people. After all, mere laws don't apply to the RTP/RTA/Amaat ... Students at Thammasat especially don't need more lessons in lawlessness and brutality shown by the Thai authorities to them especially.
Junya Lek Yimprasert had documented 10,691 Political assassinations, extra-judicial killings and murders from 1947.
Surely we don't need 1 more!
Perhaps we ought to follow the AHRC's lead and ask the PM, the director of the DSI, and the Minister of Justice for police protection for the Nitirat?
1. Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra
Prime Minister
c/o Government House
Pitsanulok Road, Dusit District
Bangkok 10300
THAILAND
Fax: +66 2 288 4000 ext. 4025
Tel: +66 2 288 4000
E-mail: spokesman@thaigov.go.th
2. Mr.Tharit Pengdith
Director-General of
Department of Special Investigation
128 Chaeng Wattana Road
Thoongsonghong, Laksi
Bangkok 10210
THAILAND
Fax: +66 2 831 9888
Tel.: +66 2 831 9888
E-mail: tharit@dsi.go.th
3. Mr. Pracha Promnok
Minister of Justice
Office of the Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Justice Building
22nd Floor Software Park Building,
Chaeng Wattana Road
Pakkred, Nonthaburi 11120
THAILAND
Fax: +66 2 502 6734 / 6884
Tel: +66 2 502 6776/ 8223
E-mail: om@moj.go.th
It may not help directly, but at least it will put them on notice that they're being watched. That there will be witnesses to any of their extra-judicial maneuvers against the Nitirat.
PPT gathers together all the
PPT gathers together all the threats being made in the Thai MSM by Prayuth and others against anyone trying to speak the truth about recent Thai history in opposition to their Big Lie and asks that we consider them together with these recent threats made against the Nitirat,
I took my own advice and sent an email to PM Yingluck trying to encourage her to embrace the Nitirat and the open and free discussion they champion so well in the face of ... well 6 October at their selfsame location cannot ever be erased from anyone's memory ... even if Thitinan "is grateful" most of us are not, are horrified and repulsed, and do not want to see any sort of replay in miniature, in the large, in the round ... at all!
It may not do any good writing to PM Yingluck ... I gave Tharit and the good General a skip ... but it surely cannot hurt. It is surely worth a few minutes' time to send on encouragement to PM Yingluck when the entire "elite" establishment is lined up against her. Isn't it?