Director Ticha of Ban Kanchanapisek Vocational Juvenile Training Center for Boys, during a meeting yesterday about the ongoing fighting between vocational students, appealed to the media not to pay too much attention to the fighting as criminal gangs try to recruit new members on schools.

Fighting between vocational students in Bangkok has been a major problem for years. There are regular deaths and serious injuries. The latest incident dates back to August 25. In fighting in Phasi Charoen (Bangkok), one student lost his left arm to a grenade and another was seriously injured.

Ticha, said the press has good intentions in raising public awareness of the problem, but just reporting it in a newspaper won't solve anything. She asked the media to pause for five years. Students at the center told her that media articles about the fighting are being read by drug gangs, who are approaching students to join them.

Source: Bangkok Post

2 responses to “'Media should report less about fights between students of vocational training'”

  1. Fransamsterdam says up

    Locking up those fighters is of course not an option either, because then they will be recruited as gang members in prison. So what does that person want now? Making hand grenades available from the government for mutual genocide in the lee?

  2. lung addie says up

    The fighting between students from different institutions seems to have been going on for a very long time. When I ask my neighbor about this, he confirms this fact. But then, about 45 years ago, it was all much more "innocent". No weapons were involved and the "damage incurred" was usually limited to a black eye or a bloody nose. In Europe, too, there were occasional clashes between different educational institutions.


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