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HISTORICAL FACTS: When progress regresses | History Defined

Prinn Panitchpakdi. Photo: Weerawong Wongpreedee

The sexual harassment and rape allegations made by some 20 women against former Democrat Party deputy leader Prinn Panitchpakdi has once again raised the murky subject of rape culture in Thailand.

While Prinn resigned from all party posts to fight mounting accusations against him and is innocent until proven guilty by a court of law, the fact of the matter remains that our laws lack a definition of what constitutes sexual abuse and harassment, or for that matter victimisation, putting survivors at a disadvantage.

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