Buriram Expats
Buriram Province - General Category => Thailand News clippings => Topic started by: Admin on April 07, 2011, 03:01:58 PM
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Army Conscription in Buriram. 7-10th April 2011.
Today in front of District office Buriram town (Jira road, Opposite the small 'Taweekit supercenter'), many young Thai guys came from the villages and even traveled from Bangkok as they have to attend the draft for the Thai army.
They go inside and choose a card/color and than they know if they get to be in the army or not. Not many want to be in the army but that is depend on their luck.... smilenod
When you turn 21 years old you have to go into the draft to join the army for 2 years.
If you volunteer after you reach 18 you only have to do 6–18 months depending on your level of education.
Also you can be a student soldier for 3 years in years 10,11,12 at school and this will then give you an exemption.
*Some pictures can be found in the gallery as well. Explore: cool1
http://www.buriramexpats.com/gallery/?album=1&gallery=98 (http://www.buriramexpats.com/gallery/?album=1&gallery=98)
sawadi
military conscription buriram thailand part 1.mkv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zihn27mnOLk#)
military conscription buriram thailand part 2.mkv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAj-4Mc340A#)
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Everyone who commits a serious criminal offence should automatically be conscripted as part of their punishment and rehabilitation. That would avoid the need for the annual conscription farce, when money changes hands to reverse decisions.
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Thai army changes transgender terms (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gjf3N-ScXr3AenZ0gz38-0eCGseg?docId=CNG.1411cd01df64d8f14a45e3962493fb9a.7d1)
BANGKOK — Thailand's defence ministry has coined new terms to describe transgender men normally exempt from army conscription to avoid causing them offence, a report said Sunday.
The ministry is amending the law that states transgender people are exempt from signing up to the military -- unless there is a shortage of recruits -- because of a "psychological abnormality", the Bangkok Post newspaper said.
When Thailand's annual conscription begins in April, "Type 2" will instead refer to men who have undergone breast implants and "Type 3" will describe those who have had a full sex change, the Bangkok Post newspaper said.
"Type 1" will refer to men "whose appearances are typical of men".
"Normally only Type 1 are required to draw a conscription ballot," Thaksin Chiamthong, director of the academic resources division of the Army Reserve Command, told the paper.
"But if the number of Type 1 is insufficient, Type 2 will be conscripted as well, despite their female-like breasts."
Thaksin's office was unavailable for comment on Sunday.
The army reportedly proposed replacing the current classification in the Conscription Act of 1954 with "gender identity disorder", but faced ire from rights groups opposed to any term that suggested abnormality.
The Thai armed forces need to conscript 97,280 men aged 21 this year -- up by 9,828 from 2010, the paper said.
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Must be more grass that need cutting this year!
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Must be more grass that need cutting this year!
I couldn't agree with you more this time.. hahaha
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They're not likely to be building roads in Cambodia, as they have done in the past!
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Everyone who commits a serious criminal offence should automatically be conscripted as part of their punishment and rehabilitation. That would avoid the need for the annual conscription farce, when money changes hands to reverse decisions.
We wouldn't want to train criminals to use guns, would we?
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I always remember the first time I saw the conscription process in operation.Grow men on the floor crying or whimpering with their heads in the mothers lap after being conscripted. !!!
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It took place in Nong Ki last Sunday
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It costs 30,000bt paid 1 year before the straw drawing to avoid conscription, but 40,000bt if paid less than 1 year before...............So I am reliably informed.
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They're not likely to be building roads in Cambodia, as they have done in the past!
They didnt make a bad job of it,,,,,,Who built the bridges>>
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I always remember the first time I saw the conscription process in operation.Grow men on the floor crying or whimpering with their heads in the mothers lap after being conscripted. !!!
I've seen that too,,,,,,Anyone would think they had just been sentenced to death
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I always remember the first time I saw the conscription process in operation.Grow men on the floor crying or whimpering with their heads in the mothers lap after being conscripted. !!!
Was that Type 1, 2 or 3 Grown men?
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Don't the prospective conscriptees have the option to join the monkhood for that same two-year period....??
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7/4/2011
Newin’s son request a waiver of conscription.[/b]
See full article + Video in the News section:
http://www.buriramexpats.com/buriram-news/ (http://www.buriramexpats.com/buriram-news/)
sawadi
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He has a waiver of conscription as he is studying English. Is this just a temporary waiver until his studies are finished?
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Don't the prospective conscriptees have the option to join the monkhood for that same two-year period....??
In our village they have a 'lucky dip' of red and black balls picked out of a bag.
It was funny seeing a 'Rambo' type being picked as a monk and a slightly less gentle type going of to 'The War on Weeds'
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17 suspects arrested in draft evasion case (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/231083/17-suspects-arrested-in-draft-evasion-case)
BURI RAM : Police have arrested 17 people on suspicion of helping young men avoid military conscription.
The detainees, all of small build, alleged a "boss" from Udon Thani provided them with ID cards to doctor so they could take the place of prospective conscripts.
One suspect said the man who paid him was "an army officer with the rank of colonel".
It is believed the suspects operated across 10 provinces _ Nong Bua Lam Phu, Loei, Udon Thani, Khon Kaen, Nong Khai, Kalasin, Buri Ram, Nakhon Ratchasima, Surin and Chaiyaphum.
Buri Ram police arrested four youths, who had 14 fake ID cards, in Prakhon Chai district on Wednesday, as they were preparing for "conscription" the following morning.
The suspects, aged between 14 and 18, admitted they modified the genuine ID cards after being contacted by their boss in Udon Thani.
The four also had real Sor Dor 9 and 35 military service status documents.
None of them met the army's 160cm height and 76cm chest measurement requirements, which are the minimum for conscripts.
Another 13 suspects were arrested in Udon Thani's Muang district and Sakon Nakhon's Sawang Daen Din district, police said.
One of the suspects was identified as Thaksin Yani, 28, of Sakon Nakhon.
Mr Thaksin, who was preparing to work for his four "customers" at conscription centres in Loei, Nakhon Ratchasima and Nong Bua Lam Phu, told police he took the job after a wage offer by a man identified only as "an officer with the rank of colonel".
The suspects, each of whom allegedly worked for multiple draft dodgers, were given 100 baht to have their pictures taken.
On conscription day, each of them was paid 2,500 baht and then another 18,000 baht after they finished the job, said Pol Col Natthanon Prachum, chief of investigation for Provincial Police Region 4.
The police unit is now working with Udon Thani governor Khomsan Ekachai to try to uncover the military mastermind who is believed to be in Udon Thani.
Meanwhile, Provincial Administration Department chief Mongkol Surasatja is to meet with the Defence Ministry in a bid to halt the conscription scam.
He suggested the use of a computer database at the department's Civil Registration Division to help check identities of men ordered to report for conscription.
ID card forgery is punishable by a fine of between 10,000 and 20,000 baht or a jail term of between one and 10 years.
Those who allow their ID cards to be forged to avoid conscription also face a charge of being involved in making fake documents.