1st Army told to explain ganja assaults

The 1st Army Region has been asked to explain alleged assaults on conscripts caught smoking marijuana in their barracks in Chon Buri, army chief Gen Narongphan Jitkaewtae said.

The conscripts complained they were beaten by their instructors last Friday.

Two came forward to lodge a police complaint. They said five conscripts were accused of smoking marijuana and beaten.

Both conscripts earlier showed wounds which they said occurred when instructors hit them and dragged them along a concrete floor. They also claimed instructors subjected them to waterboarding to make them confess.

On Tuesday, one conscript, Kajorn Prajong, 24, accompanied by his mother, Chatra Prajong, filed a complaint with police in Chon Buri accusing the instructors, whose names were not given, of assault.

The family had earlier told the government’s Damrongtham complaint centre in Rayong about…