reader Posted November 12 Share Posted November 12 From Thai PBS World A school teacher was killed and a vocational student seriously injured in a shooting near a school in Bangkok’s Khlong Toei district on Saturday morning. Khlong Toei police say they suspect that the shooting stemmed from a rivalry between students of two vocational colleges. Quoting motorcycle taxi drivers, police said that a group of about five vocational students were gathered on the pavement in front of a bank, near a girl’s school on Sunthorn Kosa Road, when the pillion passenger from a motorcycle approached the students and opened fire with a handgun. The bullets hit one of the students and a bystander, later identified as a school teacher. The gunman, thought to be a student at a rival college, walked back to his accomplice on the bike, but was told to go back shoot the already wounded student again. The attackers then fled on the motorcycle, heading towards Rama 4 Road. The two wounded people were rushed to Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, where the teacher was pronounced dead. alvnv 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRS Posted November 12 Share Posted November 12 Rivalries between certain Bangkok vocational schools has turned deadly over many years. This site has a 45-minute video that analyses the killing of one near graduate shot four times in the heart in front of his mother. Worse is that this rivalry seems to continue for decades after graduations. Please look at it. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/dying-graduate-1511241?cid=fbins reader 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keithambrose Posted November 12 Share Posted November 12 6 hours ago, PeterRS said: Rivalries between certain Bangkok vocational schools has turned deadly over many years. This site has a 45-minute video that analyses the killing of one near graduate shot four times in the heart in front of his mother. Worse is that this rivalry seems to continue for decades after graduations. Please look at it. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/dying-graduate-1511241?cid=fbins Interesting. We have all heard of rivalry between institutions, but that programme did not really explain, to me at least, why the rivalry is so vicious. We had rivalry, at Oxford, with Cambridge, but nothing like that! Why so deadly, and, as you say, long lasting. The comment from the vice principal, that he was a thug, but grew out of it, does not seem to me to be helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRS Posted November 12 Share Posted November 12 15 minutes ago, Keithambrose said: Why so deadly, and, as you say, long lasting. This long article may help to explain part of the reason. I'm sorry I do not have time this evening to choose sections of it. Besides, i think the matter is too complicated to parse into a few sentences. For those interested, please read the article. thanks. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/cnainsider/shopping-haven-mbk-bangkok-thailand-deadliest-school-rivalries-879811 Marc in Calif 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinapu Posted November 12 Share Posted November 12 14 hours ago, reader said: two wounded people were rushed to Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, where the teacher was pronounced dead. hopefully perpetrators will be found and feed to sharks It was even GThai movie " Is my classmate a gay" based of such nonsencical rivalries. On eof characters when asked why ? couldn't answer and said ' it's just tradition" . At end of day so much about Buddhist values and peaceful society. Clearly Thailand has some violence problems, it's just us tourists who are spared such attractions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRS Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 5 hours ago, vinapu said: Clearly Thailand has some violence problems, it's just us tourists who are spared such attractions Thailand is no different from other countries - apart from a handful like Bhutan and Japan where general violence appears to be much less than the average. What I find different here, and what @Keithambrose mentions in his earlier post, is the extreme violence that seems baked into attendance at two particular vocational colleges in Bangkok. I don't believe this can be put down simply to "some violence problems." When attendance at one college invites a large group of students to murder and knifings in the streets just on the basis of tit-for-tat, something is seriously wrong. Indeed, despite atempts to curb extreme violence, the police seem to have run out of ideas how to stop it. What I find particularly firghtening in the vdo is the open access to their former colleges by alumni - even those now in their 70s. The one interviewed indicated that he was there to give "advice" and "take care" of the younger students, not to cause trouble. Given that he himself had gladly participated in violence during his years in college, I seriously wonder what that "advice" might be. Although barred, he openly pays no attention to it. "Nobody can stop me. This is my house," clearly has sinister overtones. Although this may appear flippant, with most of the students coming from up-country and living on their own in a huge new city, I wonder how many of those young men might 30 years ago have ended up as go-go boys. At the least, for some it might have been a safer option! t0oL1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinapu Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 perhaps disbanding those schools would solve such persisting and yet nonsensical problem splinter1949 and alvnv 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reader Posted November 20 Author Share Posted November 20 From Thai PBS World Vocational student shot dead in Bangkok’s Dusit district Monday morning Bangkok police have launched a manhunt for three men, riding two motorcycles, who shot and killed a 16-year-old vocational student on Ranong 2 Road in the Dusit district of Bangkok on Monday morning. The victim has been identified as a second-year student at Dusit Technical College. He was found dead on the pavement. A pen pistol with a .38 calibre bullet in the chamber was found near his body. Police have questioned the victim’s friend, who reportedly said that he left the college on a motorcycle to pick the victim up, after he had disembarked from a bus on Rama V Road, opposite the entrance to Ranong 2 Road. He said the victim told him he was being followed by three men riding two motorcycles, wearing black and full face crash helmets. He said they stopped in the middle of the road, then rushed toward him, one welding a knife. He then heard a gunshot and the victim collapsed. The three perpetrators escaped towards the Rama V Road. ————- From Coconuts Bangkok Klong Toei shooting: University student succumbs to injuries after 8 days in hospital A university student who was the target of a shooting by vocational school students last week has tragically passed away. Thanasorn “Yod” Hongsawat, 19, succumbed to his injuries yesterday evening after he was shot by two assailants on Sunthonkosa road, Klong Toei on Nov. 11 in what was believed to be motivated by an inter-school rivalry. The victim was a first-year student at Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-ok, Uthenthawai Campus. He was shot twice in the chest and once in the neck, and was rushed to Chulalongkorn Hospital where he remained for eight days, during which the medical staff said he developed a blood infection. Phoraphimol, the victim’s mother, tearfully said she had been by his side at the hospital and that he passed away at 8pm yesterday. alvnv, splinter1949 and vinapu 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reader Posted November 26 Author Share Posted November 26 From Thai PBS World Police name three in hunt for suspects in Khlong Toei shootings Bangkok police have asked the public to report any sightings or information on the whereabouts of three suspects wanted in connection with the fatal shootings of a school teacher and an Uthenthawai vocational student in the Khlong Toei area earlier this month. Arrest warrants have been issued for Anawin Kaewkeb, Abdulloh Dueramae and Nokvuth Ruangsri on charges of murder, illegal possession of and carrying of firearms in public without a permit, discharging a firearm in public and illegal assembly of more than five people for criminal activities. Mug shots of the three suspects have been posted on the Facebook page of the Metropolitan Police Bureau. A teacher from Sacred Heart Convent School, Sarida Sinprasert, was shot dead near her school on Sunthorn Kosa Road on November 11th and an Uthenthawai student was fatally shot by two gunmen riding a motorcycle in the same incident. The student died a few days later at Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. Eight suspects, most of them dropouts from a vocational college opposite the National Stadium, are currently being held in police custody. =========== The Bangkok Post is reporting that the suspects are among 84 members of an organized crime gang. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/special-reports/2692829/shooting-probe-unearths-macabre-student-gang Ruthrieston and alvnv 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
