The army has apologised for ordering a bed-ridden man to report to a conscription venue in Lamphun on Saturday to prove he was not fit enough to be drafted.
Last month, the mother of Thanakrit Wuthiraithong, a 21-year-old resident of Lamphun’s Muang district, reported the young man had been hit by a car and would not be able to report for conscription as ordered on Saturday because the accident had left him bed-ridden.
Regardless, a military recruitment officer in Muang district ordered his mother to bring Mr Thanakrit to the conscription venue anyway, so he could be removed from the military conscription list.
The officer even asked the local municipal office to send an emergency medical vehicle to bring the man to the venue, where conscription officers confirmed the bed-ridden…
