re: "Manas case all too rare" (Editorial, BP, July 21)
Dear editor,
While it is indeed a healthy precedent for a Thai army general to be tried, found guilty, and imprisoned, it is also impossible to believe that this criminal's colleagues and superiors were entirely ignorant of his vile abuses of army power as he and his criminal accomplices in Thai officialdom went about their greed driven business of creating human misery. As the Post suggests, we can only speculate how wide and how high up the evil, or at least knowledge of it, extended. Thankfully, foreigners are not so complacent or willing to turn a blind eye to such evil, but acted to force at least minimal action against the evil that Thai authorities had long ignored.
Nor can it surprise that the good man in the Royal Thai Police who had courageously done the right thing to expose the evil to justice, Pol Maj Gen Paween Pongsirin, was forced into foreign exile: an all too common event when experts dare to speak inconvenient truths about Thai history, Thai society or Thai politics.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on July 22, 2017, under the title "Inconvenient evils" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1291847/inconvenient-evils
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