After the death of 3 students: Prayuth threatens to close courses
Prime Minister Prayuth threatens to temporarily close vocational colleges with students fighting with students from other colleges until an investigation into a triple murder is completed. Prayuth is concerned about the mating, where two previous students and a female student were killed last month.
Six students from Rajamangala University of Technology (Uthen Thawai campus) were arrested for last week's incident. They are suspected of shooting dead two students from the Pathumwan Institute of Technology (PIT) on Friday evening while riding the motorcycle.
The shooting is said to be revenge for the death of a student who was shot dead in front of MBK shopping center in Pathumwan (Bangkok) late last month. The six suspected that this had been done by a PIT student. They were arrested Monday evening and confessed. Four of them were classmates of the student who was shot.
The group is also held responsible for the death of a 21-year-old student from their own program on September 1 at 107 Soi Ramkhamhaeng. They believed it was a student from PIT.
Prime Minister Prayuth has directed authorities to find peaceful ways to end fighting between students and foster mutual understanding.
Kamjorn Tatiyakavee, secretary general of the Office of the Higher Education Commission, has asked the directors of both vocational schools to end the feud. When students fight, he says, the principals will be investigated to see if they have been negligent. According to him, freshmen are incited by senior students to dislike students from rival programs.
(Source: Bangkok Post, Sept. 18, 2014)