Eighteen-year-old Iranian-German Ali Sonboly, who took his own life as well, had in his childhood been a regular victim of playground bullying. The man had cursed him as a "foreigner", to which Sonboly replied, "I am German - yeah, I was born here!" In Thailand, academics Ruthaychonnee Sittichai and Peter K Smith prepared a report in 2013 on bullying and cyber-bullying here. "Because of you I was bullied for seven years," he said, "and now I have to buy a gun to shoot you all!" The son of a taxi driver and a department-store clerk shared this fact with a complete stranger in the midst of his shooting spree.

Source: The Nation Bangkok July 28, 2016 18:00 UTC