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How Thailand's Military Junta Tried to 'Adjust My Attitude' in Detention
Pravit Rojanaphruk recounts his recent "attitude adjustment" under the country's ruling junta.
By Pravit Rojanaphruk September 23, 2015
"Attitude adjustment" is a method employed by Thailand's ruling military junta to neutralize its critics and opponents. Those "invited" for attitude adjustment are detained without charge and interrogated, with settings ranging from vacation- to detention-like facilities. Treatment ranges from effusive politeness to terse language; from being kept in a military camp where you can walk around and play sports to being detained in a small room with no vista to the world, depending on your learning curve toward the attitude adjustment process.
These are some of the things I remember best during my second round of attitude adjustment under the military junta, also known as the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). My crime was tweeting and posting comments questioning the legitimacy of the NCPO and its leader General Prayut Chan-o-cha, who is also prime minister, for which I was detained from September 13 to 15, 2015.
Initial Treatment
After being blindfolded and taken in a nondescript van on an hour-and-a-half journey out of Bangkok, with some four men in black short-sleeved shirts wearing surgical masks, I was deposited in a 4-by-4 meter cell. All the paneless wooden windows, with iron bars, were shut tight and the ventilation outlets in the adjoining tiny toilet and shower area were covered from the outside with brown paper. The cell had a non-functioning mobile air-conditioner that went no lower than 29 degrees Celsius, a CCTV that stared at me from a corner of the ceiling, a hazy TV set, and several small bottles of water. There were no cracks to let in the sun or air, and the cell was locked from outside.
I was told to knock if I wanted anything, and that I would be told of my "program" the following day.
Unlike the mid-ranking or senior officers I had encountered in my first attitude adjustment session, the four men in charge, who worked in shifts of two at a time, were always terse, always sported a surgical mask and were always in civilian clothes. They only spoke or answered me when it was absolutely necessary.
In the morning of day two, after barely being able to eat the breakfast given to me by the guards, I begged to be taken outside for some fresh air, citing the lack of ventilation inside the cell.
The stern guards reluctantly obliged. They first got me to sit facing away from the door so I couldn't see what was outside. They then blindfolded me and guided me outside for some "fresh air". I was allowed to stay outside the cell for 20 minutes – always blindfolded – and gulp what air I could from the outside door they had left open.
After a few outings like this, one guard complained that I was being too demanding, to which I said I was only asking for air, which is free, and not a bottle of Coke.
My exercise routine consisted of taking four steps, turning and taking another two, or vice-versa since that was what the room's size allowed. I soon realized that this was just depleting more precious oxygen at an even faster pace, and so abandoned it after less than 30 minutes.
Later in the evening, after spending some 20 hours without proper human interaction, an officer who introduced himself as a lieutenant came in for a chat. He asked if there was anything he could do for me. I asked for some sunshine, fresh air, and perhaps some soap, shampoo, and washing powder.
He granted me some air by leaving the door to my cell open – provided I faced the other way. As for sunshine – it was never granted.
Interrogation
Before I was blindfolded on the first day at an Army camp in Bangkok, some six Army officers – ranging from mid- to senior rank – interrogated me. They wanted to know things like my nickname, details about my parents, their profession, my siblings, my political network, my address, and so on. They also asked why I was against the coup and critical of the lese majeste law. The interrogation lasted about six hours.
When I told them that I was not a supporter of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, they wanted to know what group I belonged to. All I could say was that things can't be just black and white.
They may have expected an apology from me regarding what I said about their leader, Prayut, but I did not offer any. Instead, I told them that everything they asked can be answered rationally without an apology.
The interrogators wanted to peruse my smartphone, but I told them I left it with a United Nations (UN) officer for safekeeping. They appeared upset. Some even said this implied that I was not sincere or innocent and asked why I left it with UN staff.
I replied that since the junta leader possesses absolute power under Article 44 of the junta-sponsored interim constitution, it would only be wise to deposit my phone with a UN staff member who obviously does not operate under the Thai military junta's rules. I added, however, that I was willing to ring the man up and ask him to come to see us and demonstrate the content of the phone. They didn't seem to like my answer. After a while, they seemed to have decided it might not be the wisest idea to drag the UN into the fiasco.
By the end of day three, I was blindfolded again and driven back to the First Army Division headquarters in Bangkok. The No. 2 boss of the division, General Asawin Chaemsuwan, eventually walked in with half a dozen uniformed men in attendance.
I had met this general earlier on two occasions. Both times, he had warned me against being too expressive about the controversial lese majeste law.
"I will not give you a red card yet, because we're all Thais," he said, using a soccer analogy to refer to the "yellow card" warning that I had been given during my first "adjustment" session immediately after the coup in May last year. Apparently, my "crime" did not warrant the equivalent of a full ejection from a soccer pitch.
However, Asawin warned that the charge – which I later found to be sedition – would proceed if I breached the "contract" by joining, assisting, or leading an anti-coup movement or by "crossing the line" in my criticism of the junta. A sedition charge carries a maximum penalty of seven years.
I then asked the general and the half dozen mid-ranking officers about how long this "contract" would last. What was the statute of limitations? They replied that it was 15 years. "Would the NCPO be long gone by then?" I asked. The question went unanswered.
The general then changed the subject by mentioning two locations and asking me if I lived at either of them. Obviously they had been tracking my whereabouts via my phone's GPS.
He then bade me farewell, before one of his men escorted me home.
"I wish we don't have to meet again," the old general said before leaving. Oddly enough, I found myself thinking of him as a kind and considerate man. I realized I may have developed a mild Stockholm syndrome, as I was relieved to see him.
Pravit Rojanaphruk was a senior reporter and columnist with Thailand's The Nation Newspaper for 23 years. He resigned from the post a day after he was released from detention. This article is based on a shorter version which appeared in The Nation newspaper on September 23, entitled "How my attitude was 'adjusted' by the NCPO".
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How to thailand ' s military junta พยายาม ' ปรับทัศนคติของฉันใน detention '
Pravit rojanaphruk recounts ล่าสุดของเขา "ปรับ ทัศนคติ" under the country ' s ruling junta.
โดย pravit rojanaphruk กันยายน 23, 2015
"การ ปรับ ทัศนคติ วิธีการ" เป็นเพื่อธุรกิจขนาดย่อมโดย thailand ' s ruling military junta เพื่อ neutralize critics ของมันและฝ่ายตรงข้าม. ผู้ "เชิญ" สำหรับการปรับทัศนคติจะเครื่องบินโดยไม่คิดค่าบริการและ interrogated, กับการตั้งค่าตั้งแต่วันหยุด-to detention-ถูกใจสิ่งอำนวยความสะดวก. ช่วงจากการรักษา effusive ความเรียบร้อยในภาษา terse; จากที่ถูกเก็บไว้ในค่ายทหารที่คุณสามารถเดินรอบๆ และเล่นกีฬาให้ถูก detained in a small room with no vista to the world, ได้ขึ้นอยู่กับ learning curve ขึ้นปรับทัศนคติ.
นี่คือบางสิ่งที่ฉันจำที่ดีที่สุดของฉันระหว่างรอบที่สองของการปรับทัศนคติ under the military junta, also known as the national council for peace and order (ncpo). ฉันถูก tweeting อาชญากรรมและการโพสต์ความคิดเห็น questioning the legitimacy of the ncpo ทั่วไปและของผู้นำ prayut chan-o-ชา, ที่ยัง prime minister, ที่ฉันถูกเครื่องบินจาก 13 กันยายน 15, 2015.
การรักษาเริ่มต้น
หลังจากถูก blindfolded และถ่ายใน nondescript van เมื่อหนึ่งชั่วโมง-และ-a-ครึ่ง journey out of bangkok, กับบางสี่ men in black short-sleeved เสื้อใส่รูปแบบชื่อ items, ฉันถูก deposited ใน 4-by-4 เมตรเซลล์. All the paneless ไม้ windows, กับ iron บาร์, ถูกปิดสนิทและการระบายอากาศ outlets ขนาดเล็กใน adjoining system และอาบน้ำมีพื้นที่ครอบคลุมจากข้างนอกกับกระดาษสีน้ำตาล. เซลล์มี non-functioning mobile air-บริการที่ผิดพลาดไม่ต่ำกว่า 29 องศาเซลเซียส, a วงจรปิด stared ที่ที่ฉันจากมุมของเพดาน hazy, tv, และตั้งหลายขวดขนาดเล็กของน้ำ. ไม่ cracks เพื่อแจ้งให้ในอาทิตย์หรือ) และเซลล์ถูกล็อกจากข้างนอก.
ฉันเคยบอกกับสักคนทุบหากฉันต้องการอะไรและฉันจะบอกของฉัน "โปรแกรม" ต่อไปนี้วัน.
เลิกถูกใจ mid-ranking หรือ senior เจ้าหน้าที่ฉันพบแรกของฉันในวาระการปรับทัศนคติที่สี่มนุษย์ค่าบริการใน, ที่เคยทำงานใน shifts ของสอง, อยู่เสมอ, เสมอ terse sported a items mask และถูกเสมอใน civilian เสื้อผ้า. พวกเขาเท่านั้นหรือตอบฉันพูดเมื่อจำเป็นจริงเชียว
ในเช้าของวันสองหลังยังสามารถทานอาหารเช้าที่ให้ฉันโดย guards ฉันขอร้องให้เป็นถ่ายนอกสำหรับบาง fresh air, observers say ขาดการระบายอากาศภายในเซลล์.
The stern guards reluctantly obliged. ครั้งแรกที่ฉันได้นั่งหันห่างจากประตูดังนั้นฉันไม่สามารถเห็นสิ่งที่ถูกนอก. พวกเขาแล้ว skip blindfolded ฉันและฉันนอกสำหรับบาง "อากาศ สดชื่น". ฉันได้รับอนุญาตให้อยู่นอกเซลล์ 20 นาที-เสมอ gulp blindfolded-และอากาศที่ฉันสามารถจากนอกประต
