NHRC defends dictators

PPT has lost count of the times that National Human Right Commission boss Amara Pongsapich has trashed human rights.

PPT and many others have long pointed to the failure of the NHRC. Its political makeup and position is royalist and militarist, which means that it protects the “rights” of abusers and the “rights” of the state.

The Nation reports that an “award” ceremony organized by the morally bankrupt NHRC was meant to honor several activists with Outstanding Human Rights awards to mark Human Rights Day.

Several groups of students showed up to protest and “to condemn the NHRC’s work and the ongoing martial law.” The NHRC tried to silence them. In addition, a representative of one of the awardees, the Dao Din Group, “tried to speak out of turn onstage had to be dragged away.”

The speaker didn’t “have” to be dragged away, but the NHRC did it to silence a person exercising their rights.

As usual, the head of the NHRC supported the restriction of human rights: Amara said:

Some people may think the martial law violates human rights, but we need to understand that martial law needs to be in place while the country’s reform road map is being implemented…. In such circumstances, you need to find a balance.

We can’t think of a more ridiculous and laughable claim by someone who is meant to have some conception of human rights.

Amara is a disgrace. Her organization has failed and is a laughing stock. Amara takes the money and does the military dictatorship’s bidding.