CHILDREN’S DAY: The shame of the Thai regime’s tragic abuse of the young
Source: ANDREW MACGREGOR MARSHALL's FB
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Today is the annual Thai “Children’s Day”. In most places around the world, a day dedicated to children would be a celebration of the potential of youth. Sadly, not in Thailand.
Tragically, the people of Thailand remain oppressed by a regime of elderly and inadequate men who are terrified of progress and believe obedience is more important than imagination and freedom.
Children’s Day in Thailand is a day of state-sponsored child abuse.
The main element of Children’s Day is that the army — which has never fought a real war against any foreign enemy but repeatedly crushes Thai democracy — invites kids into military camps where they can be brainwashed by being given lethal weapons to play with.
It would be unfair to accuse Thailand of being the only country in the world to abuse children in this way. North Korea does it too.
It’s not just the military junta that exploits kids on Children’s Day — some establishments in Thailand’s vast industrialised sex industry also take advantage of the occasion. Here is an advert for a Thai hostess bar in Bangkok offering a special schoolgirl cosplay event on Children’s Day:
The most important thing that Thais can do on Children’s Day is stop and think about the lies they have been taught. It is not “Thai culture” to abuse and exploit children, and force them to crawl on the ground, and try to stop them learning to think for themselves. Frankly, it is not even acceptable human behaviour at all.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/andrew-macgregor-marshall/childrens-day-the-shame-of-the-thai-regimes-tragic-abuse-of-the-young/1390000357685966
Today is the annual Thai “Children’s Day”. In most places around the world, a day dedicated to children would be a celebration of the potential of youth. Sadly, not in Thailand.
Tragically, the people of Thailand remain oppressed by a regime of elderly and inadequate men who are terrified of progress and believe obedience is more important than imagination and freedom.
Children’s Day in Thailand is a day of state-sponsored child abuse.
The main element of Children’s Day is that the army — which has never fought a real war against any foreign enemy but repeatedly crushes Thai democracy — invites kids into military camps where they can be brainwashed by being given lethal weapons to play with.
It would be unfair to accuse Thailand of being the only country in the world to abuse children in this way. North Korea does it too.
It’s not just the military junta that exploits kids on Children’s Day — some establishments in Thailand’s vast industrialised sex industry also take advantage of the occasion. Here is an advert for a Thai hostess bar in Bangkok offering a special schoolgirl cosplay event on Children’s Day:
It is warped and twisted and wrong, and it needs to stop.
