US report lambastes Thailand’s rights abuses

[Judi Lynn]

US report lambastes Thailand’s rights abuses

The Nation
Publication Date : 2005-02-28
The US State Department will today release a critical assessment of Thailand’s human rights situation over the past year – including two violent incidents in the South, the disappearance of lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit and government interference with the media.

The annual report, which has been prepared by the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labour since 1979 will examine human rights in Thailand from January to November of 2004.

The Nation has learnt that the latest report will be different and more critical than those of previous years.

The report last year noted that human rights violations were worsening due to extra-judicial killings and arbitrary arrests. The US said there had been a significant increase in killings of criminal suspects. It noted also that the government failed to investigate and prosecute vigorously those who committed such abuses, contributing to a climate of impunity.
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[TahitiNut]

1. "Physician, heal thyself."

:eyes:

[MyDogSpot]

2. The US criticizing another country's human rights abuses

is rather disingenuous considering the US's own pitiful record in that regard.

[bemildred]

3. Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo. nt

[havocmom]

4. "government interference with the media"

Pot, kettle.
It'd be funny if it weren't so damaging as to be tragic.

[havocmom]

5. Hope Ambassador "Skip" Boyce has a big jar of Vaseline.

The Thai government may wanna put that report somewhere out of the damaging rays of sunshine. Poor guy, having to deal with the junta's hypocrisy.

[neweurope]

6. Disappeared people - doesn't that ring a bell? Now I'm all for naming

human rights violations wherever they occur but it makes me heave when I hear the US government naming them.

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