Callous to all

Thailand’s military is a barbarous institution, built on violence and behaving violently towards the nation’s citizens and, it has shown, to its own recruits as it barstardizes them to blind compliance with hierarchy and orders.

“Barstardization” is an Australian term used by one of our correspondents, and it struck us as sadly appropriate for this horrid bunch of thugs.

As an example of how base the organization is, The Nation reports that a “military-appointed fact-finding committee investigating the recent death of a teenage cadet at a military academy has refused to give a timetable for its inquiry…’.

The thugs claim this is because they are going to be “transparent,” “honest” and “clear.”

The military’s committee has “already started interviewing witnesses and checking CCTV recordings.”

We are reminded that the military has seldom been “transparent,” “honest” or “clear” in anything. Think of the “investigation” of Chaiyapoom Pasae’s murder. That also included attention to CCTV.

As far as we can tell, that “investigation” went nowhere and the murderers remain free while the military rid itself of one young activist.

The military leadership is callous to all. It makes no distinctions.