SEPTEMBER NEWS!!
“Murdered By The State”
Hello again readers!!
Thanks for all the positive feedback to my more personal news letters. I’ve had a great response and encouragement from so many people who write to me, all saying you all prefer these newsletters!
Are you all mad? Are you all part illiterate?
Only joking Readers! Your encouragement and positive response is MOST appreciated. Now you really are stuck with me!!
Just to recapitulate (recap) to those like me, “part illiterate” and update you on last month events.
There’s been no reprisals to me by the authorities here and our web-site within Thailand
But my request to Bangkwang Prison Governor for 2 day consecutive visits (only monthly I might add) with my wife goes un-answered! No news on Lek’s settlement visa appeal, early days for that yet! For security reasons the British Embassy in Bangkok England
I can’t believe this is about to happen and I am counting down every day now!
Every letter my Mum seems to write, there’s a mention of she’s been out shopping buying yet more clothes for Lek and Oak, new bed sheets and duvet, toys for Oak. Mum’s fully kitted out their (Lek and Oak’s) bedroom with everything imaginable! Wardrobes and drawers full with their every need! The stage is all set! Just waiting for Lek and Oak’s arrival. Having Lek Oak and I all in England
It looks all set for a great Christmas Readers!!
I know this next part is gonna put a downer on this Newsletter, but it has to be said. Last months Newsletter I mentioned Thailand
On the 1st of February 2003, the Government of Thailand launched a nationwide drugs war of such savage magnitude it sent shockwaves far beyond the world’s drug using communities.
The force unleashed by Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, in his crusade to rid Thailand of drugs and “drug users”, “from every inch of Thai Soil” has drawn fierce criticism from stunned human rights groups around the world.
I was caught up in this drug war in it’s height of April 2003 when I was arrested. The year before my arrest Thaksin Shinawatra also introduced a new law in Thailand
Thousands were killed in the first months of this war on drugs, tens of thousands arrested users and dealers alike!
It created a situation where the human rights record of Thailand
Thailand
In June that year, user activists, human rights campaigners and those concerned with civil rights launched a world wide “Day of Action”, holding protests and vigils outside Thai Embassies in cities across the globe: from Cardiff, New York, Washington and Nepal, from Moscow to Melbourne and Bangkok.
The UK’s drug agency, Lifeline in unison with UKRHA (the UK harm reduction alliance) sponsored two members from the TDN (Thai Drug users network)to attend the demonstration in London and speak to the UK drugs community about the terror that has been instilled in drug users across Thailand and the blood being spilt in another, tragically misguided war on drugs and drug users.
Undoubtedly, Thailand
Thaksin Shinawatra applied his corporate management principles giving targets for arrests and seizures with the police rewarded with a “Bounty” per pill or drug found, and a percentage of the assets seized. Failure to reach these targets was not an option and officials faced with dismissal or demotion if they do not meet their regional quotas. As a result, meeting targets became more important than the rule of Law.
During the Vietnam War, the Thai Government recruited and armed irregular forces and vigilante groups and many of these professional gunmen still remain in Thailand
These gangs are often hired to settle family disputes and business feuds and are used during elections with canvassers routinely being found dead. Disturbingly, the killings then in the anti-drug campaign have the same appearance as these professional hits.
Many victims had been on secret but official “Black Lists” and when the crackdown happened the Government told dealers that they should “Surrender” or “Die”, the killings started right on cue. Of the thousands dead only 74 were confirmed killed by police. The then Thai Foreign Minister had called the killings of drug users and dealers a “Side effect” of the current war on drugs.
While Thaksin himself stated:” If they resist, there is nothing we can do, they will have to die prematurely if necessary”.
Pornthip Rojaasunan, acting director of the forensic science Institute said the justice system could be jeopardised by a lack of explanation into these extra judicial killings. “It should be made clear whether these killings were made in self defence or not” she said. Although the law requires the presence of at least one doctor at the scene of an unnatural death, few were willing to intervene in such cases, worried how the police would react. “All we can do is report on the location of the bullet and other wounds on the body; we can’t say who did what and how the bullet hit the person, as is intended by Law”.
Though no doctor will say so publicly, police have discouraged them from being open, as the Law requires.
Forum Asia , a regional human rights group, says it interviewed Forensic experts who said they found suspects had drugs planted on them after their death, that some victims were handcuffed when killed or shot in a group and that in 3 cases bullets had been removed before coroners had examined the bodies.
Despite the Thai Government stating that it is not policy to encourage extra judicial killings, Amnesty International called the crackdown “a de facto shoot-to-kill policy” that pressurizes police officers to produce results or lose their jobs.
Although the crackdown was initially planned fro three months, Thaksin was so pleased with the results he extended it until December 2003 when he intended to deliver a drug-free Thailand
Tragically, this has meant that in some of Thailand Thailand
Increases in poverty and crime has meant drug users have become the scapegoats, blamed for the decline in society and the deterioration of communities and as people look to their government for answers, ignorance about the drug issue has allowed the slash and burn approach to flourish.
Thailand’s war on drugs is bloody in it’s intensity and lawless in it’s methods and it’s Thai drug users who are ending up dead or imprisoned for outrageously long terms of imprisonment for small personal amounts of drugs (As my case 33 ½ years for 25 grams).ousted in a bloodless coup in September 2006. the military government that peaceably ousted Thailands
So where did Thaksin run to when the military government put an end to Thaksins reign of terror and murder?
England England
I am a UK citizen born and raised in Leicester, my son Oak is a UK citizen, yet my wife and Oak’s mother is denied a settlement visa for England and this monster is welcomed with open arms, “something seriously wrong here”.
Last month Thaksin bought Manchester City Thailand
On Tuesday the Thai supreme court issued a warrant for Thaksin’s arrest for failing to show up in court to face the graft charges. International human-rights monitors such as New York City-based Human Rights watch have also chimed in, accusing Thaksin of presiding over a range of abuses, including extra-judicial killings, during his tenure as Prime Minister.
Thaksin hasn’t allowed negative publicity to curb his enthusiasm for his new role as proud owner of a well established team in a League watched by a world wide TV audience of 570 million.
Thaksin has signalled his ambitions by hiring former England
Thaksin known under many names, his commonly known nickname in his own country: Ai Na Liam or Mr. Square Face.
This might seem harmless enough it should worry Manchester City Fans as it’s the Thai word for square shaped also means “Con Man”.
A Human Rights Watch letter sent this summer to the Premier League. In it, they asked the League to reassess whether or not former Thai Prime Minister is really “Fit” and “proper person” to take charge of the club.
Thaksin, who owns a home in London , is also working hard to turn on the charm in his country of exile he threw a street party in Manchester
Money talks and the poor walk even in England
That the UK Government can welcome TOXIN and refuse my wife really infuriates me.
Readers lets hope for good news next month on my wife’s visa surely they will see sense? And have a heart?
Catherine Rose good luck with your Business studies, your mum Ann Diver is a Diamond among people; we wish you the best and every success.
See you next month readers!
Oh! September 22nd was Lek and I 4 year Wedding Anniversary Love you Lek, don’t worry it will all work out good.
Love Steve
Thanks to Black Poppy Publications
The force unleashed by Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, in his crusade to rid Thailand of drugs and “drug users”, “from every inch of Thai Soil” has drawn fierce criticism from stunned human rights groups around the world.
I was caught up in this drug war in it’s height of April 2003 when I was arrested. The year before my arrest Thaksin Shinawatra also introduced a new law in
Thousands were killed in the first months of this war on drugs, tens of thousands arrested users and dealers alike!
It created a situation where the human rights record of
In June that year, user activists, human rights campaigners and those concerned with civil rights launched a world wide “Day of Action”, holding protests and vigils outside Thai Embassies in cities across the globe: from Cardiff, New York, Washington and Nepal, from Moscow to Melbourne and Bangkok.
The UK’s drug agency, Lifeline in unison with UKRHA (the UK harm reduction alliance) sponsored two members from the TDN (Thai Drug users network)to attend the demonstration in London and speak to the UK drugs community about the terror that has been instilled in drug users across Thailand and the blood being spilt in another, tragically misguided war on drugs and drug users.
Undoubtedly,
Thaksin Shinawatra applied his corporate management principles giving targets for arrests and seizures with the police rewarded with a “Bounty” per pill or drug found, and a percentage of the assets seized. Failure to reach these targets was not an option and officials faced with dismissal or demotion if they do not meet their regional quotas. As a result, meeting targets became more important than the rule of Law.
During the Vietnam War, the Thai Government recruited and armed irregular forces and vigilante groups and many of these professional gunmen still remain in
These gangs are often hired to settle family disputes and business feuds and are used during elections with canvassers routinely being found dead. Disturbingly, the killings then in the anti-drug campaign have the same appearance as these professional hits.
Many victims had been on secret but official “Black Lists” and when the crackdown happened the Government told dealers that they should “Surrender” or “Die”, the killings started right on cue. Of the thousands dead only 74 were confirmed killed by police. The then Thai Foreign Minister had called the killings of drug users and dealers a “Side effect” of the current war on drugs.
While Thaksin himself stated:” If they resist, there is nothing we can do, they will have to die prematurely if necessary”.
Pornthip Rojaasunan, acting director of the forensic science Institute said the justice system could be jeopardised by a lack of explanation into these extra judicial killings. “It should be made clear whether these killings were made in self defence or not” she said. Although the law requires the presence of at least one doctor at the scene of an unnatural death, few were willing to intervene in such cases, worried how the police would react. “All we can do is report on the location of the bullet and other wounds on the body; we can’t say who did what and how the bullet hit the person, as is intended by Law”.
Though no doctor will say so publicly, police have discouraged them from being open, as the Law requires.
Forum
Despite the Thai Government stating that it is not policy to encourage extra judicial killings, Amnesty International called the crackdown “a de facto shoot-to-kill policy” that pressurizes police officers to produce results or lose their jobs.
Although the crackdown was initially planned fro three months, Thaksin was so pleased with the results he extended it until December 2003 when he intended to deliver a drug-free
Tragically, this has meant that in some of
Increases in poverty and crime has meant drug users have become the scapegoats, blamed for the decline in society and the deterioration of communities and as people look to their government for answers, ignorance about the drug issue has allowed the slash and burn approach to flourish.
Thailand’s war on drugs is bloody in it’s intensity and lawless in it’s methods and it’s Thai drug users who are ending up dead or imprisoned for outrageously long terms of imprisonment for small personal amounts of drugs (As my case 33 ½ years for 25 grams).ousted in a bloodless coup in September 2006. the military government that peaceably ousted
So where did Thaksin run to when the military government put an end to Thaksins reign of terror and murder?
I am a UK citizen born and raised in Leicester, my son Oak is a UK citizen, yet my wife and Oak’s mother is denied a settlement visa for England and this monster is welcomed with open arms, “something seriously wrong here”.
Last month Thaksin bought
On Tuesday the Thai supreme court issued a warrant for Thaksin’s arrest for failing to show up in court to face the graft charges. International human-rights monitors such as New York City-based Human Rights watch have also chimed in, accusing Thaksin of presiding over a range of abuses, including extra-judicial killings, during his tenure as Prime Minister.
Thaksin hasn’t allowed negative publicity to curb his enthusiasm for his new role as proud owner of a well established team in a League watched by a world wide TV audience of 570 million.
Thaksin has signalled his ambitions by hiring former
Thaksin known under many names, his commonly known nickname in his own country: Ai Na Liam or Mr. Square Face.
This might seem harmless enough it should worry Manchester City Fans as it’s the Thai word for square shaped also means “Con Man”.
A Human Rights Watch letter sent this summer to the Premier League. In it, they asked the League to reassess whether or not former Thai Prime Minister is really “Fit” and “proper person” to take charge of the club.
Thaksin, who owns a home in
Money talks and the poor walk even in
That the UK Government can welcome TOXIN and refuse my wife really infuriates me.
Readers lets hope for good news next month on my wife’s visa surely they will see sense? And have a heart?
Catherine Rose good luck with your Business studies, your mum Ann Diver is a Diamond among people; we wish you the best and every success.
See you next month readers!
Oh! September 22nd was Lek and I 4 year Wedding Anniversary Love you Lek, don’t worry it will all work out good.
Love Steve
Thanks to Black Poppy Publications
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