re: "Time to stop the torture" (BP, Editorial, April 25)
Dear editor,
Meanwhile, Thai officials acting with legal impunity continue their shameful pretence of following the teachings of the Buddha. Buddhists do not condone, let alone practice, such evil against fellow citizens. But then, how many Thais are actually Buddhists? Many are Thai Buddhists, but that national religion made up by and for self-serving elites, complete with gaudy temples to their own magnificence, bears no close resemblance to the wise teachings of the more modest Buddha, whose honesty, were he to arrive in Thailand today, would have him promptly thrown into prison next to Jatupat Boonpatararaksa, the exemplary Pai Dao Din, and other victims of Thai rule of law that has been made up over decades to serve coup makers and their cronies lording it over the unfree Thai people.
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 April 27, 2018, under the title "This isn't Buddhism" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1453453/cram-jam-and-pass
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