From: B7IW@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA ("Wittaya La-orchan")
Subject: Re: family still mourning...
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 01:06:25 EST
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>> I'm afraid the blame must rest with those who ordered the shootings, rather
>> than those who carried them out.
>>
>> Laurence
>
>I cannot agree with you on this one.  While the ones who ordered the shootings
>certainly should bear the brunt of the guilt, you cannot really be implying
>that those who actually did the shooting are guiltless.
>
>That is like saying that certain Germans in WWII were only carrying out
>Hitler's orders by killing Jews in concentration camps, and, therefore,
>guiltless.  That excuse didn't wash then, and it should not now.  Simply doing
>what you were told to do, but what you knew was wrong, is still wrong.
>
>John Carmack
>Miami University
>Oxford, Ohio
>
>I'm not implying they are guiltless, but I know what would have happened to the
>had they not obeyed orders.  I think it is important to try to focus the blame
>in an issue of this kind, otherwise the whole thing become too diffuse and
>the authorities can then excuse themselves from prosecution, as indeed they are
>now trying to do.  I hear your comparison re. WW2 Germans, and I agree with
>your sentiments, yet while it was held that the German military as a whole
>were guilty, only the senior officers were ever prosecuted after WW2.
>
>Laurence

I agree with Khun Laurence in this subject that the blame must rest on whose
who ordered the shooting. I have read 'Decades' the magazine that inclusively
report the May crisis event, and I found that something illogical to me.
The report mentioned that the soldiers were very proud to kill or brutally
hurt the unarmed protestors. This is not a natural act.

During the training, these soldiers learned to shoot just at a paper target
not at human being. They're trained to fight for the country not to be a
professional killer. If they know that they're killing "innocent" people, they
should have feel pain or something but pround.

I believe that these soldiers were misleaded by their superior through a
simple brainwash program. Imagine that these soldiers lived 500 km. from
Bangkok. The information that they've got is just from the gov. controlled
TV. or radio. What they saw is just a bunch of people try to destroy the
properties of the country. In addition, the term "communist", our no.1 enemy
brainwashingly known to us by the american during the vietnam war,
was used to describe the protestors. This is enough for these soldiers to
hate and of course pround to kill the protestors for the country.
I bet that when these poor soldiers knew what they've done they must live with
their guilt for the rest of their lifes.

Those senior officers should be the ones that must be punished.
And what the country need is "quality" free press and a larger scale of
communication.

Wittaya.
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