Thailand seeks answers to unexplained massacre at a kindergarten

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What turns a man on decapitate about twenty sleeping children? ‘Land of Smiles’ finds no answers or solace. Casuistry intends to point out the social flaws behind these dramas: loose gun controllack psychic exams in the security forces, medicines… But not even extreme alienation. ex-cop enough to understand the murder of 36 people, including 22 children, who put the country on the sofa. The sad conclusion is that no society can protect itself from fits of madness. Panya Khamrab.

Thailand Let’s say today is a gun problem. single Philippines surpasses it Asia inside murders with firearms and it has six million registered units and another four million hidden units. It is the rate of one gun for every seven people. However, the debate over control is different from the one that followed the shooting at each school. United States of America. This is not about a young misfit teenager buying. assault rifle online but a policeman and family man in his thirties. It is a profile that every society accepts with a gun.

national legislation, fine up to ten years and for 20,000 baht (about 544 euros) possession of weapons without registration. Requires license criminal history classes at a clean, approved shooting school, and approval from a high-ranking officer, among other requirements. “It’s pretty solid and you can’t get it for less than a month,” says Kiaw, a multinational telecommunications entrepreneur and a regular at the shooting club on the weekends. “Though I don’t know anyone who denies it,” he admits.

Uniform with mental problems

this Massacre this week brings back echo of the crime that soldier Jakrapanth Thomma committed in a mall two years ago. Fleeing a failed land deal, he stole rifles from a military warehouse and killed 29 people before being shot. Both were in uniform mental problems and easy access to weapons. Tighter controls were requested from security officials on the Change.org platform. history of drugs and violence He wonders why the ex-cop’s license wasn’t revoked or sent to rehab. It is paradoxical that the greatest massacres of society in recent years have come from those who have had to protect it. First after the 2014 coup and after the 2019 elections, some opposition voices associate him with the military’s government.

profile ex-police lieutenant recommends a bomb with a short blown fuse. Until his death, he had accumulated violent incidents with his neighbors and colleagues from the police force. fired last year for possession of drugs. He attended the oral hearing on Thursday. drug trafficking crime and his mother told the police that he used drugs after he left court. I was… paranoiac, added. The drugs found in her home last year, yes baaStrong methamphetamine Local, inexpensive and mass-produced in the nearby Golden Triangle, a residential area on the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar. It is highly addictive and can trigger hallucinations Y cruelty mania.

self-destructive spiral

Panya went to kindergarten, shot the teachers while they were having lunch, broke the door where the children were sleeping and stabbed them in the head and neck. Only one of the 23 people saved his life. He returned to his van, hit several pedestrians on his way home, and locked himself in with his wife and son. When surrounded by the police, killed them and committed suicide. Most of his victims children aged two to four years. Also, an eight-month pregnant woman who was shot at close range.

Agents a sign self-destructive spiral with drug-aggravated and possible criminal convictions. “I’m a state of insanity”, said Damrongsak Kittiprapat, chief of the national police.

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