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Home » News from Thailand » Young Thai mother (19) commits suicide and calls Prayut 'heartless'
A 19-year-old female security officer hanged herself in Bangkok after taking a pencil drawing of Prime Minister Prayut and posting it on social media.
In the accompanying text, she complained about the bad situation in Thailand, such as the rising cost of living, which she says has arisen under his rule. In her letter, she described Prime Minister Prayut as 'heartless'.
She made the drawing in a gloomy mood when she had no money to buy milk for her baby.
She then decided to end her life.
Source: Bangkok Post, among others
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https://youtu.be/zjM9WQFYSpw
This is what many readers of Thailandblog mean when they comment or take a critical look at Thailand and its leaders. It is often said that we should stay positive, that we should behave like a guest, and that as a farang we should not think that we know better. Of course we don't know any better, but it should be clear that many things are not right. My wife receives many messages from family, friends and acquaintances, all of which often have a desperate meaning. It is the farang who send money, it is the farang who organize food distribution points, it is the farang who put fingers on sore wounds. This young mother did too, but her desperation drove her to the limit.
Such a shame for such a young life. Caring for her child became too much for her.
If you look at Belgian forums or Thailand sites, Thailand is portrayed as "the" country. Negative objective comments will not be accepted by the administrators. A real bunch of morons. Only their truth is accepted. If you see their background, they have just had a little more than primary education, which explains everything. If you go against it you will be kicked out. NL sites, including thailandblog.nl, are much more objective in that regard. NB I am Belgian!
This is just so sad, not having money to buy food for your baby. Around me I see people in the Netherlands who think they have problems, mostly luxury problems. Is still in stark proportion to how the situation is for some in Thailand. We should appreciate what we have here more and complain less. Hope for the future that Thailand will take better care of its people.
It is undeniably true what you say that the situation in the Netherlands is better. And above all that (in normal times) we should complain less. But somewhere in your text tells me that you have not looked around enough in the Netherlands. Poverty is also prevalent in the Netherlands, but it is much more hidden. Look at the food banks how many people unfortunately have to use this.
I have noticed that people who are in permanent employment and are used to getting their salary into their bank account at a fixed time each month do not really realize how low the benefits are in the Netherlands and how long you have to wait for them. Just ask the entrepreneurs who have been waiting for their special assistance benefit for two months.
Those benefits are not that low at all. As a single father with an eleven-year-old daughter, I receive 300 euros every month for my child. 90 KB and 212 euros child-related budget with a net income of 2100 euros. I have always saved and was able to pay two thirds of the purchase price of my owner-occupied home with my savings 4 years ago. Never had a car while traveling daily from Amsterdam to The Hague. Travel expenses for 30% paid by my employer. I've picked up a lot of free furniture off the curb in a neighborhood that's been portrayed as deprived. My leather sofa was purchased new, but I have been using it for 35 years. My TV screen is 24 inch and ten years old. It is always said that healthier food is more expensive, but that is nonsense Every week there are offers. Appelsientje is then cheaper than coca cola, but according to the manager of the local Appie, more (un) soft drinks are sold than juice. Unfortunately, children who grow up in poverty in the Netherlands have chosen the wrong parents. In my position at the Social Services, I also regularly came behind the front door of the hidden poverty. If you can't put your money where your mouth is and definitely continue to choose nicotine instead of six packs of gravy for your children, yes. I have traveled in 80 countries including Thailand where my ex is from. In their wooden hut on stilts I slept on the floor and drank water from a bottle (rain water from the barrel) They did not complain and I would not dare to complain Now people in areas where there is a lockdown and no incomes are so poor that they have nothing to eat. There is no food bank or advance in the Philippines For a month 3 kilos of rice and a few cans of sardines for a family. In my neighborhood this week on the bulky waste collection day, I saw six couches lying outside. You have to do something on the internet with all that free time. Three of them looked good, could have been sold second hand. The other three always looked even better than my 35 year old sofa where the leather of the seat has worn through. There is just a (table) cloth on it for a euro scored at Gideon Italiaander. Poverty in the Netherlands is on many minds. I received a comment from some benefit claimants, do you come all the way from Amsterdam? By train and don't have a car? She does and I don't. Poverty is often really between the ears here.
You may be lucky then. My son lives on benefits (debt restructuring) and receives 40 euros a week. He has taken all the furniture from Makplaats for free or almost free. And picked up with a friend. From us, through his brother, he receives something for his home on his birthday and Christmas. New duvet, or covers for his chairs. He can get around with it, but if you want a new pair of shoes, we'll have to buy them anyway.
It's survival money and that's it
It's sad, of course, but there's more at play here.
Not being able to buy milk is the biggest nonsense. Every baby is helped by neighbors and friends if the mother raises the issue. Informing her boyfriend that she intends to harm herself and doing it shows that she was a strong woman and it's a shame she wasn't aware of it herself.
Thaksin S. was there like the chickens again to grab his moment by contributing to the costs
before the cremation. How dirty can you play it, but the red souls see that differently.
Perhaps it would have been better not to become a teenage mother and thus save a lot of misery, but then the mega investment of 30 baht had to be made.
Pointing to someone else is so easy and again a pity that the environment did not notice that she had a problem.
Are you better off with Prayut who has quickly distributed his fortune among his family or the “yellow” Bourgeoisie who control everything (media, etc…)? They thought last year to reduce the minimum mandatory meager daily wage. Have you ever wondered where those gentlemen ex-soldiers, now parliamentarians, made their fortune? Have restricted democracy with their new constitution. Are they better than a Thaksin?
Moderator: I don't think it's right to speculate about her state of mind. Let's stick to the facts.
I am what you call such a red soul and I am also proud of it.
Fortunately, in Thailand there are more red souls than yellow inverted Robin Hoods, we just have the bad luck that whenever democracies are elected a government, the inverted Robin Hoods don't like it that much.
But luckily that can't last long, because we are in the majority and the connecting factor is no longer there.
Just a little while and then the flag can go out with me.
Vague story. I know mothers who will do anything for their children and will never let them down. That is why I find it very strange that a young mother, even with a job, opts for such a solution and thus leaves her child to his/her fate. There will be a lot different going on. Suicide is never a solution.
Also here in Phuket, Farangs organize food donations as well as the municipalities. Wealthy Thais are deafeningly silent. But maybe they help without us knowing. Be busy and stuff. ash. 1000 meals will be distributed in Chalong again. So many need it. The police work very well and enthusiastically, really perfect. It feels good for all who contribute to this to (be able to) do this.
Turns out that boyfriend had concealed the 5000 Bht state aid. Bht 1.000.000 has now been bid for the drawing.
When I look at the drawing and text, wow. This woman was someone of great talent, very sad that it has to end like this.
Very sad, poor young lady and a loss to her loved ones. Could this have gone differently? Yes, maybe, it doesn't sound like a deliberate suicide but more like a spontaneous decision. Overcome by emotion and see no way out. Not everyone talks easily about what's bothering them, what they're fighting with. I learned in the news that her husband abused her and she got rid of him and met her boyfriend through her work as a security guard. So she must have walked around with the necessary. I'm not going to blame her for not talking to her boyfriend, her parents, or anyone else. It's just deeply sad. She is not the only Thai who is distraught and the water is or was up to or above the lips.
@Rob V
You are right and let's hope that there will come a time when when you ask if something is wrong you will not be told “mai pen rai”
Pride is one thing.
I once had a girlfriend where continuing the relationship was of no use to me.
He managed to hang himself on the shower hose where I was just in time and then casually took another 20 sleeping pills.
Fortunately, she is still alive now, but it remains nonsense to see suicide as an option because of another person.
1 day later the story turns out to be very different and Prayut turns out to have nothing to do with it at all. It is about the 5000 Baht that she owed and what she was waiting for. Her second husband turned out to have taken that 5000 Baht from the ATM that she knew nothing about.
Do you have a source showing that her partner withheld the money?
The facts I have learned so far is that
ปลายฝน (Plaifon / Plaajfon) had signed up for the 16 baht handout on April 5000 or - more likely - received that amount on April 16 on that day (various media report otherwise). Thairath writes that she normally received her salary of 1 baht on the 16st and 5000th, but this time the salary had not yet been paid on the day. This may have caused confusion and gave her the impression that she had not received a handout.
On April 22, she drew the sketch of Prayuth and shared it on Facebook with the emotional explanation that she does not have enough money to take care of her child. On April 27, her doctor told her to stay at home for a few days, with the result that her salary would be cut (not working, no continued payment of her wages). So she had some problems. Unfortunately, on April 28, she committed suicide by hanging herself.
It is also known that her ex abused her and that she has often hurt herself in the past (hurting herself).
Her new boyfriend/husband has previously been quoted by Coconuts as saying, “Throughout the one year that we've been together, I loved her and felt deeply for her situation,” Wichai said. “She had been through a lot, fighting her sickness and being abused by her ex-husband … But she still tried, made use of her talent in drawing to get some money so she could feed her baby. But during this time, things are pretty tough.”
This is how I get an image of a young creative lady who unfortunately had to endure the necessary setbacks, and who felt even more distraught due to the lockdown and income problems and then came to this sad act of desperation.
Sources:
- https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1910624/young-woman-commits-suicide-after-posting-sketch-of-prayut-online
- https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1910708/thaksin-named-host-of-funeral
- https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/struggling-mother-draws-portrait-of-pm-before-committing-suicide/
- https://www.thairath.co.th/news/local/bangkok/1834458