re: "Groups rally against PM over his eight-year tenure" (BP, August 23, 2022)
Dear editor,
There can be no doubt that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha's preferred fortune teller will be up to the task of averting the "ritual to put a curse on military dictators" that the protestors have invoked.
It is less obvious that the curse recorded by history as being brought down by himself on the opponents of democracy for the Thai people will be so easily be deflected. Worse, that curse still being perpetrated will reach back in time to stain the institutions and figures that come to be seen to have enabled his coup against democracy to succeed against the wellbeing of Thailand for eight years already. This desecration of once hallowed figures and institutions will only become the more irreparable the longer Prayut continues to lord it over the Thai people by means of law that rejects justice. He might show a little more concern for those caught up in that judgement of his acts, which will not be forever held back, no matter how many fortune tellers or magical amulets are called upon.
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 August 25, 2022, under the title "Stubborn curse" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2376473/prison-ills
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