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both an attorney and a reformer, I have seen many forms of
human rights violation. The worst aspect of that is the law that
affirms and legalizes such violation. From the day I started
working until now, more than thirty years have passed, and we see
some big improvement, of course, right protection for victims and
offenders as human beings have been significantly upgraded. We
went from ‘no rights for the arrested person’ to ‘have a lawyer’ to
‘imposing obligation of the government to find lawyers for the accused
in certain cases.’

Despite all improvements, there are still laws that go against
the principle of human rights protection and international
standard. Laws that deviate benefits from the underprivileged. As
long as these kinds of law are widespread, the rule of law cannot
be fully realized.

Third, law must be enforced and applied fairly and equally to
everybody. All persons, institutions and entities, public and
private, including the state alike, everyone is accountable under
the law. It is very paramount, very important rule. We are very
concerned of the enforcement of law in Thailand. As we all
know, it’s been alleged, for the same conduct or the same crime,
that law sometimes is enforced only upon some groups and not
the others. This discrimination or double standard in law
enforcement causes anger among people. And it really discredits
the trust in justice system.

Fourth, law must be independently adjudicated. This means
the institutions like court and judges need to be independent, not
to be under any kind of power nor to be influenced by politics.

In the light of keeping check and balance, institutions with
adjudicators are very important. The process of selection of
adjudicators and the image of the adjudicating institutions is very
important in terms of building and keeping people’s trust in the
law and governing system.

As long as there is still a doubt in mind about impartiality of
judicators, law, losses and supremacy. And when law lost the
power to set to this agreement, peace and security and society are

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