The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) yesterday made a recommendation urging the Ministry of Defence to revoke the 1992 Ministerial Regulation that allows high-ranking officers to keep soldiers as domestic helpers within 90 days, as the practice is a degradation of human dignity.

<p>The King has promoted Gen Apirat Kongsompong, the Royal Thai Army (RTA) Commander and Pol Col Naras Savestanan, Director-General of the Corrections Department, as Deputy Lord Chamberlains of the Palace after their retirement on 30 September 2020</p>

<div> <div>The Army has been ordered to pay over 1.8 million baht to the mother of a soldier beaten to death in custody. Meanwhile, the trial over the death of another soldier has been postponed as witnesses failed to show up.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 22 February 2018, the Bangkok Civil Court ruled that the Royal Thai Army must pay 1.87 million baht in compensation to the family of Corporal Kittikorn Suthiraphan. </div></div>

<div>While the Thai junta insists their primary mission is to reform the country, a year has lapsed since the National Reform Council (NRC) presented 505 reform proposals to the National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA). </div>

<div> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-280adf7f-6043-d4b8-c0b3-e1460efb4073">An Army unit in northern Thailand filed a police complaint, accusing a businessman of defaming the King on Facebook.&nbsp;</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-280adf7f-6043-d4b8-c0b3-e1460efb4073">The Chiang Rai Army’s Peace and Order Maintenance Command sent a representative to file the complaint at Chiang Rai Police Station on Tuesday, according to&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.manager.co.th/Local/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9570000144856">ASTV-Manager Online</a>.&nbsp;</p> </div>

<div>Female paramilitaries in the troubled Deep South are dubbed “Iron Flowers” by the military. They are assigned to use their soft side to connect with locals. This story explores whether they are successful and what obstacles they face.&nbsp;</div> <p></p>

<p>While Burma’s Constitution reserves 25 per cent of parliamentary seats for the military, Thailand now has 52.5% of seats in the newly appointed National Legislative Assembly (NLA) occupied by acting and retired military officers.</p> <div> </div>

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<div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong><span>Thailand: Imposition of martial law is unnecessary, disproportionate, and illegal</span></strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Paris, Bangkok, 20 May 2014 - The Thai Army’s imposition of martial law is an unnecessary, disproportionate, and illegal measure that pushes Thailand further away from a political solution to the ongoing turmoil, FIDH and its member organization Union for Civil Liberty (UCL) said today.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The two organizations urged the immediate l </div>

<div> <div>Rangers Task Force 45, in response to Army policy, has put its troops to the task of promoting and protecting the monarchy in cyber space, claiming to have posted 1.69 million comments on webboards and social media during a 4-month period of last year.</div> </div>

<p>The 1st Army Commander has launched a programme entitled &lsquo;Thais Protect the Land&rsquo; to organize the people to fight threats against the monarchy.</p>