Thai Navy seamen discharge follows investigation over trainee hazing

The Thai navy has quickly responded to yesterday’s public revelation about a Royal Thai Navy instructor who was dealing out punishments to new Navy recruits by forcing them to drink a cocktail including diluted human semen. The incident happened at the Sattahip Naval Base in October last year.

Petty Officer Second Class Thaksin Ngokpilai was first transferred to an “inactive post’, the usual discipline meted out in the police and armed forces for alleged transgressions, whilst they are being investigated. Thaksin was working for the Department of Security at the Royal Thai Navy.

He has now been jailed for at least 30 days and will face a full discharge after a Thai navy fact-finding panel decided the allegations were supported by evidence from a number of recruits coming forward over the matter.

The panel also decided the incident was already found to have “seriously…