The sudden departure of Thailand’s chief human trafficking investigator, Police Major General Paween Pongsirin, for Australia, apparently in fear for his life, raises the question of who and what he was afraid of when he fled. The top ranks of Thai army and law enforcement have been wracked with behind-the-scenes scandal for weeks, including suicides, disappearances and flights abroad.
No one knows who is connected to the forces that drove Paween abroad, although many others who have disappeared, died or committed suicide appear to have been in circles revolving around Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, who is expected to inherit the throne of his ailing father, the revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who turned 88 on Dec. 5.
The chaos illustrates the enormous disarray at the top of Thailand’s police and military, and the harsh crackdown led by former Army Chief Prayuth Chan-ocha in May of 2014 has done nothing to clean it up.
Fortify Rights, a nonprofit human rights NGO based in Southeast Asia and registered in the US and Switzerland, issued a press release on Dec. 10 saying Paween, a key witness in a high profile mass criminal trial of 91 alleged rights traffickers in Thailand, feared for his life and is now at an undisclosed location. Full story...
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No one knows who is connected to the forces that drove Paween abroad, although many others who have disappeared, died or committed suicide appear to have been in circles revolving around Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, who is expected to inherit the throne of his ailing father, the revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who turned 88 on Dec. 5.
The chaos illustrates the enormous disarray at the top of Thailand’s police and military, and the harsh crackdown led by former Army Chief Prayuth Chan-ocha in May of 2014 has done nothing to clean it up.
Fortify Rights, a nonprofit human rights NGO based in Southeast Asia and registered in the US and Switzerland, issued a press release on Dec. 10 saying Paween, a key witness in a high profile mass criminal trial of 91 alleged rights traffickers in Thailand, feared for his life and is now at an undisclosed location. Full story...
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