The new supreme law has an actual ban on torture, beating people to death, use of meat hooks during discipline sessions. Chaiyapoom Pasae, the Lahu artist, was a drug dealer who tried to attack a soldier with a grenade. Pvt Yutthakinun Boonniam, a 22-year-old military police trainee known as Benz, was late for work and had to be punished. And of course there is no organic, military or criminal law against torture. That covers quite a lot of "incidents", to use the technical military term for killing people in military custody.

Source: Bangkok Post April 08, 2017 21:33 UTC