Pattaya Reporter Beaten Up By Five Civil Volunteer Officers

[dirtydog]

Pattaya Reporter Beaten Up By Five Civil Volunteer Officers

Five volunteer officers of Thappraya center beat up a news reporter in front of a thousand local and foreign spectators who attended the Loy Krathong festival. The police assumes this is due to some negative news about the officers that the reporter filed earlier.


Pattaya, November 10, 2011[PDN];Mr. Anucha Noyjamnong, a local Pattaya City news reporter notified Pol. Lt. Col. Songkram Puneam, Pattaya police station with injuries after he was beaten up by five Thappraya Center civil volunteer officers at the Loy Krathong ceremony minutes before Mr. Ithiphol Khunpleum, the Lord Mayor of Pattaya City opened the ceremony.




Mr. Anucha, the reporter said he entered the stage to take pictures of the Loy Krathong ceremony and one of the civil volunteer officers of Thappraya stopped him.

Mr. Anucha told him that he was a reporter. The officer didn’t believe him and pulled him off the stage and four more officers joined starting to beat him up, Mr. Anucha’s video camera was damaged.

Mr. Anucha remembers the face of one of the officers, Mr. Meena Namdokmai working at Thappraya center.

The violent incident was witnessed by tourists and other reporters who tried to break it up, saying “he is a real reporter” but the group of officers didn’t stop.

Finally they left taking Mr. Anucha’s walkie/talkie with them.

After that Mr. Ronnakit Akesing, Deputy Lord Mayor of Pattaya City and his team asked for the cause of the incident and told Mr. Anucha to report to the police.


For the cause of this incident, the police assumes is a news report that Mr. Anucha filed regarding one of the officers who inappropriately touched a woman.

This made the civil volunteer officers angry and they beat up Mr. Anucha.

The police made a report and sent Mr. Anucha for a check-up at Banglamung hospital and called the Thappraya center volunteer officers for interrogation regarding the beating.

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[phunphin]

mindless jibbering fools...

[Tom Sawyer]

What a fucking shithole. Try finding a draft beer on walking street. Sexy Airport and a couple of others are ok (after 8pm). Dasvi-fucking-danya. The girls are getting fatter and uglier every year. The Ruskie girls turn my head far more often than the tired looking thai tarts. Avoid the place. No need for lawyers or estate agents. Visit and stay in a cheap joint for a lark, eat in McDonalds and that's enough.

[BugginOut]

Mr. Ithiphol Khunpleum, the Lord Mayor of Pattaya City

Mr. Ronnakit Akesing, Deputy Lord Mayor of Pattaya City

You've got to be kidding...LORD Mayor?!?!?!

Finally they left taking Mr. Anucha’s walkie/talkie with them.

So the volunteer police essentially beat and mugged him...nice.

[Tom Sawyer]

^ and ^^ probably enough to get us jailed if not banned

[Seekingasylum]

These retards are the building blocks of your so called democracy Tom. Second thoughts or do you still think in mindless slogans?

[dirtydog]

Doubt he had a license for the walkie talkie, police should lock him up....

[Tom Sawyer]

These retards are the building blocks of your so called democracy Tom. Second thoughts or do you still think in mindless slogans?

I'll bet you can barely wait until Charles becomes head of state in ol' blightly and his other realms and territories..

You can apply to be his shirt-lifter man in waiting.. such an honour.

[IceSpike]

5 Journalists Murdered in Thailand since 1992

70 Journalists Murdered in Philippines since 1992

94 Journalists Murdered in Iraq since 1992

A beating in Pattaya don't look so bad compared to these stats.

http://cpj.org/

[Itchy]

5 Journalists Murdered in Thailand since 1992

70 Journalists Murdered in Philippines since 1992

94 Journalists Murdered in Iraq since 1992

A beating in Pattaya don't look so bad compared to these stats.

So what's your argument, if you can find a worse crime somewhere else then any crime here can be excused?



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[Simon43]

Not splitting hairs, but these were civil defence volunteers,(the ones with the open-hand insignia), not police volunteers.

Simon

[dutara]

Must have had something to do with his nose, very un-Thai.

[alwarner]

Must have had something to do with his nose, very un-Thai.

they thought he was a jew, so you can understand it really.

[Tom Sawyer]

5 Journalists Murdered in Thailand since 1992

70 Journalists Murdered in Philippines since 1992

94 Journalists Murdered in Iraq since 1992

A beating in Pattaya don't look so bad compared to these stats.

So what's your argument, if you can find a worse crime somewhere else then any crime here can be excused?
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Not sure about his argument but I'll add this:

The CPJ has taken the side of the yellow media in Thailand and for that alone they should fuck off. Again, I'll bet CPJ like so many other int'l NGO and organization has been sucked in by agenda-setting amart Thai staff. These organizations need to understand that anyone with the education and ability to speak english at the level required by an int'l NGO etc has just been compromised.

[dirtydog]

So some journalist got a slapping, they do a dangerous job, some even go into war zones and get killed in places like Bangkok and Iraq, who cares.