FILE PHOTO: People react during a religious ritual to remember the victims of last week's mass shooting by a rogue soldier, in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand February 15, 2020. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa/File Photo
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai military conscripts face widespread violence and sexual assaults, Amnesty International said in a report on Monday, calling the abuse institutionalized and systematically hushed up by the hierarchy.
A culture of power abuse and impunity within the military came under the spotlight last month when a Thai soldier went on a shooting rampage killing 29 people, triggered by a dispute over a housing deal involving his superior officer.
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