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Activist monk who skipped draft faces court trial

Student activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal holds a sign denouncing the compulsory military draft as ‘obsolete and unnecessary’ at a conscription unit at Wat Rat Phothong in Samut Prakan, where he went to seek student deferment of his military service, in 2017. (Photo: Somchai Poomlard)

Activist-turned-monk Phra Netiwit Jaranasampanno will be questioned about his failure to report for military conscription, and faces a court trial and possible compulsory drafting into the army without the benefit of drawing a ballot, according to the army.

Maj Gen Sirichan Ngathong, deputy spokeswoman, said on Monday that the army would treat Phra Netiwit like the other men who failed to show up for the mandatory conscription process.

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