Army officers mistreat recruits: one dead and one seriously injured

The editor's note under the article is completely justified, 'with some regularity' I would change to 'with regularity'. Especially during basic training, many recruits experience physical and psychological abuse and sexual harassment. Many officers make the soldiers 'tiger' (crawl) hundreds of meters on a tar road in the sweltering sun, causing burns. Learned first hand that soldiers had to go completely naked and even lay naked on top of each other. (Have also seen pictures of it on the internet). The barracks of soldiers are often hundreds of kilometers away from their place of residence, so you can easily be on the road for 10 hours by bus. The chance that you will return too late after a leave is therefore high due to a delay of the bus, but the penalties for returning late are not tender; e.g. confinement in a hole in the ground with bars as a 'roof' so that you cannot stand upright for 3 full days and nights, exposed to sun and rain, punctured by mosquitoes and no place to relieve yourself. Barbaric situations in the Thai army are commonplace and, as the editors report, sometimes with fatal consequences. The impact of military service in Thailand for the rest of your life is not difficult to estimate.