re: "Preventing a proxy war in Myanmar" (BP, March 22, 2022)
Dear editor,
In "Preventing a proxy war in Myanmar" (March 22), Kavi Chongkittavorn compares ASEAN to a family, concluding with the inspiring message that "The faster the regime (the military enemies of the Myanmar people) follows the Asean peace plan, the better chance of a return to the family and normalcy."
For once, I am in agreement with Kavi. ASEAN does display characteristics that define a particular type of family: the grossly dysfunctional family.
In the ASEAN family, domestic abuse is the order of the day, with the children being regularly beaten, malnourished and worse by thuggish parents, who are too often evil step-parents, unfit for the roles they have greedily grasped solely to abuse their own children. Under threats of more dire punishments, the rapacious parents put the abused children to hard labour, the fruits of which they seize to deck themselves out in a sufficiency of fairy tale luxury.
For the children suffering under the reign of so abusively dysfunctional parents, dissolution and a thorough smashing of the old ways is surely preferable to continuing the brutish normalcy Kavi alludes to.
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 March 26, 2022, under the title "In a brutish family" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2285522/porn-on-the-streets
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