Juntan får ännu en gång kritik och den här gången är det ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) som framför mycket hård kritik mot militärjuntan.
Coup leader and self-appointed Prime Minister Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha must cease absurd claims to be acting in the interests of human rights and democracy, repeal all laws that violate Thailand’s international legal obligations and return power to an elected, civilian government.
MANILA – Bangkok’s military government continues to demonstrate profound contempt for the rule of law and the dignity and rights of its citizens and should immediately repeal all laws that violate Thailand’s international human rights obligations and hand power back to a fully elected, civilian administration, ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) said today.
APHR called on the international community and ASEAN government’s to take a stronger stand against the decline of human rights and the rule of law in Thailand, warning that a failure of the international community to stand up to the junta in Bangkok is being seen as a green light to other rights abusing governments in the region. This “soft” approach risks encouraging a serious backslide in democracy and the rule of law across the whole of Southeast Asia, APHR warned.
“Thai citizens have the right and duty under the previous Thai Constitution, the ASEAN Charter and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to be protected from human rights violations and afforded the freedom to express their ideas; but their voices are being suppressed under a climate of fear that has been systematically and perniciously enforced by an authoritarian, military government under General Prayuth Chan-ocha,” said Walden Bello, APHR Vice President and Philippines Congressman.
“Indeed, it is the actions of the military administration, including its failure to respect, protect and promote human rights that should be curtailed and monitored, not the thoughts and words of students, academics and ordinary Thai citizens seeking to uphold Thailand’s long history of democratization.”
“Indeed, it is the actions of the military administration, including its failure to respect, protect and promote human rights that should be curtailed and monitored, not the thoughts and words of students, academics and ordinary Thai citizens seeking to uphold Thailand’s long history of democratization.”
The Thai coup and the military regime it has imposed is in direct violation of the purpose and principals of the ASEAN Charter and ASEAN governments must take a clear stand on this or risk undermining 40 years of work on the ASEAN project and making a mockery of the 2015 ASEAN Community, APHR said.
Article 1 of the ASEAN Charter states that among the 15 key purpose of the regional grouping is “to maintain and enhance peace, security and stability…in the region”, and “to strengthen democracy, enhance good governance and the rule of law, and to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms … ”.
“Something has gone terribly wrong in Thailand when the military illegally overthrows a democratically elected government and tears up the constitution, men and women are taken from their homes in the middle of the night and held at military camps, academics are banned from holding seminars, and people can’t freely post their thoughts and ideas on social media, and this, we are told is in the interests of democracy, the rule of law and justice: We all of us must be living in a Bizzaro World if this is accepted as anywhere close to being logical,” Mr. Bello added.
“We all of us must be living in a Bizzaro World if this is accepted as anywhere close to being logical.”
Since seizing power, Thailand’s military government has undertaken a systematic persecution of political opponents and has sought to silence all criticism and debate.
APHR strongly refutes claims made to the United Nations General Assembly by Thailand’s military-appointed foreign minister, Gen Tanasak Patimapragorn, on Saturday 27 September, that Thailand is not retreating from Democracy . The military general spoke, apparently without awareness of the deep irony, of the need for “respect for the rule of law… good governance, transparency, accountability and equal access to justice.” These are the very things that the military regime and its backers in Thailand have disregarded and systematically worked to destroy and undermine for the past eight years.
http://www.aseanmp.org/?p=3109
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