re: "Cambodia jails critics deported by Thailand" (BP, November 22, 2021)
Dear editor,
Can Cambodia's official apologist Chhay Kim Khoeun really believe that anyone will believe that he or what he represents is sincere when he asks of Thailand's deportation of political refugees to imprisonment in Cambodia: "How can this be a human rights violation when living in Thailand illegally? I don't understand. Thailand enforced its law and we enforce our law"? Such blind reverence for law irrespective of justice is as touching as the unfettered faith that fires the burning of witches and heretics.
Do Cambodia's masters therefore also hold that everything Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge did was right and proper because in accord with the law made up by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge? It sounds most like a coup committer lamely repeating the mantra: "It's the law," as if merely being the law could ever make anything just or right or morally acceptable.
Other than fascist or communist totalitarians and their brutish ideological ilk, are there any who believe with the perfection of blind faith that a law, however grossly it perverts justice, is to be revered merely because it is the law?
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 November 25, 2021, under the title "Unacceptable law" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2221103/not-neighbourly
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