Violence is endangering Thai schools

Human Rights Watch (HRW), the New York-based rights group, has warned that unrest in Thailand’s southern provinces was severely endangering the education system. Schools in southern Thailand have previously been targeted by separatist fighters, who view the system as a symbol of government oppression. Al Jazeera notes how buildings have been burned and teachers attacked.

However, a new report from HRW accuses the Thai armed forces of being just as guilty of disrupting education and endangering the lives of schoolchildren, by using schools as military bases.

Read more about this…


Related Articles:

Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

Blog Widget by LinkWithin
This entry was posted in Asia, News, thailand and tagged . Bookmark the permalink.

2 Responses to Violence is endangering Thai schools

  1. From the archives: Violence is endangering Thai schools http://t.co/Z8DMKe7

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>