The Thai Constitution Protection Association is asking three agencies to take action against a "senior soldier" who ordered conscripts to raise chickens on his farm.
Secretary-general Srisuwan Janya said on Monday the association would register complaints with the National Anti-Corruption Commission, the Ombudsman and the National Human Rights Commission on Tuesday, seeking to initiate investigations and punish the senior soldier.
The move followed the posting of a video clip on social media on Friday by a young man who said he was a conscript based at Thanarat Camp in Pranburi district, Prachuap Khiri Khan province.
The 11-minute video toured the chicken farm where he said he and his colleagues were ordered by his supervising officer to live and take care of the birds. He aired frustration and anger at being assigned to such work.
"I am a conscript and willing to undergo military training. But what I have in return is having to raise chickens," he said on the video soundtrack. "I volunteered to be a soldier, but what I get back is scolding. Even my father and mother did not do that to me," he added.
The conscript said other draftees also lived and worked at the chicken farm, but did not identify their supervising officer or the location.
The Royal Thai Army could not sit idle after the video went viral.
Army spokesman Col Winthai Suwaree on Sunday admitted it was the wrong kind of duty for the junior soldiers, and they were ordered to return to normal duties at the barracks.
A panel had been set up to investigate the actions of the senior soldier, who was their commander, he added.
Mr Srisuwan said on his Facebook account that the association was not convinced any action would be taken against the supervising officer, and the army was just buying time to let the issue fade from the public limelight.
Army chief Gen Chalermchai Sitthisad said on Monday he was awaiting the findings of the investigation. He was, nonetheless, confident the video clip did not damage the army's image because it was an individual matter.
In the clip, the conscript asked all senior soldiers to realise and pay attention to the problems faced by conscripts. "I would like this clip to show senior soldiers that juniors are being used in the wrong way," the young man said.
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