January 4 2007
Farangs.org pins rape conviction on innocent man
In a bid to justify their anti-farang views, the creators of race-hate website Farangs.org have been boasting about the part they played in the conviction of a foreign paedophile for child abduction and rape, citing an article in a Thai newspaper

When translated, however, the article reveals that the guy wasn't a paedophile, no children were abducted and no one got raped. Ironically, he wasn't even a farang.
It seems that inconvenient concepts like truth and justice weren't allowed to get in the way of a racially motivated lynching.
This long-running story has taken a seriously ugly turn but perhaps our gloating anti-farang activists assumed that no one could read Thai.
Here's the translation:
Danger! Family Division Police catch Bangladeshi who raped schoolgirl
'Jayniab' [Thai politician and family values activist] took the schoolgirl to the police and explained how a man raped her after they met in an Internet chat room [BangkokChat.org]. The police set a trap by having a second woman arrange to meet him through the same chat room. After they became acquainted, the man took the woman by taxi to a hotel where the police arrested him. He was charged with rape and child abduction.
At 6pm yesterday (24th February 2006) Mrs Rabiab Ratpongpanit took 'Miss Tarita' (not her real name), a 17-year-old schoolgirl from a secondary school in Bangkok, to see Police Chief Kamronwit Tupgrajang about Mr M.D. Mohtaher [pictured], aged 25, from Bangladesh who tricked her into going to the BT Hotel on Sukhumvit Soi 11 where he raped her on 19th January.
Miss Tarita said that she had known Mr M.D. from the Internet for about 3 months. He introduced himself as a translator for a hospital and they chatted for a while. She felt that Mr M.D was a good person that she could trust and they made an appointment to meet.
The first time they met was at Central Lard Phrao. Mr M.D. tried to make himself look like a gentleman and tricked the woman into believing that he really loved her and that she could trust him. On 19th January, they made another appointment to meet at the same place. They had a meal together and then watched a movie. Mr M.D. then said he would take her home and ushered her into a taxi. However, he took her to the hotel and raped her before taking her home.
After that, she decided not to make a problem because she thought that Mr M.D. really loved her but, when she tried to call him, he wouldn't answer.
After talking with the girl, the policeman devised a plan to catch the man by having a friend of hers chat with M.D. over the Internet. She told him that she wanted to get to know him, asked for his number and arranged to meet him at Central Lard Phrao. This time, a policeman followed her at a distance. M.D took her by taxi to the BT Hotel, where the policeman arrested him.
When the policeman interviewed him, he admitted everything. He said he had lived in Thailand for four years and that he was a translator at Bumrungrad Hospital.
The policeman charged him with the rape of a schoolgirl and child abduction. He also invited other victims to come forward and file a report.
Far from being a filthy old paedophile guilty of abducting and raping children, it seems that the convicted man was actually a young guy who had had consensual sex with a young woman after a few months of online chat and a couple of dates.
It's natural for us to want to protect our daughters from sexual predators but, from the age of 16 onwards, we have to accept that they are going to have sex. The best we can hope for is that they'll do it within their own peer group rather than with some dirty old man offering gifts but it should also come as no surprise that a 17-year-old might prefer to date a guy in his twenties rather than a spotty schoolboy.
Many do.
The age of consent in Thailand is 15 but, if the deflowered girl is under 18, a quirk of Thai law allows her parents or guardians to press statutory rape charges against her boyfriend. Fortunately, however, common sense usually prevails.
This dangerous law has nothing to do with protecting children and everything to do with underpinning parental ambition and greed. Even in this day and age, some Thai parents cling to the belief that their daughters can be bought and sold like cattle and virgins still attract a hefty premium in the marriage market.
Invoking statutory rape laws when a 17-year-old girl has sex with her boyfriend is totally wrong because we also want to protect our sons from false imprisonment. If this daft law were vigorously enforced, most young men in Thailand would end up in jail.
Disconcertingly, however, the gloating lynch mob at Farangs.org are completely unrepentant about their role in M.D. Mohtaher's shameful conviction.
Their new website states:
No decent person should feel bad about it and certainly we have absolutely no regret in that respect!
(If they pull their usual trick of removing or editing the page, you can see the original here.)
The statement also reveals that Farangs.org founders, Netchanok Klinkesorn and Peter Mortensen, weren't acting alone.
Apparently, the prime mover in securing the conviction was another anti-foreigner activist known only as "Ying."
They were also joined by "Tobias from Sweden" and "Dan from UK" - a pair of farang sycophants who played along with the hate mongering in order to curry favour with the various Thai women that they wanted to have sex with.
Tobias explains how the spurned 17-year-old (whose real name he reveals is Air) got in touch with Ying.
Yes, Air did in fact send a mail (in Thai) that Ying responded to! Air was from the beginning very upset about it and wasn't pushed to take it to the court. She'd a lot of drive in herself and especially her dad was upset the way she lost her virginity.
Instead of gently advising her to get over it, Ying supported this vengeful young woman as she battled to ruin the life of a former lover who had failed to return her calls.
Sitting safely behind his computer in a country where such a travesty of justice could never occur, the group's spokesman, Tobias from Sweden, offers his version of events:
That 16-year-old girl decided to go to court supported by her very protective and conservative parents and Ying.
According to press reports, the girl was actually 17-years-old but altering the facts to suit their own ends seems to be the hallmark of the self-styled decency campaigners at Farangs.org.
Tobias also lets slip that the girl's parents were "very protective and conservative" so we can assume that they went absolutely berserk when they found out that a Bangladeshi had popped their daughter's cherry.
Had her boyfriend been a Thai man or even a farang guy the girl's parents would probably have let the matter drop or, if the guy was particularly eligible, they might have pressed for a shotgun wedding but, in the Thai Pantheon of racial hatred, Bangladeshis rank somewhere below the Burmese.
This made a lynching almost inevitable.
When Ying's friend, the publicity-seeking Thai politician and social activist Rabiab Ratpongpanit, threw her hat into the ring, M.D. Mohtaher's fate was sealed.
Tobias adds:
The guy was weeping in court.
That's hardly surprising.
I asked Tobias what sentence M.D. Mohtaher actually received (it hasn't been reported in the press) but he declined to answer.
If these bigots have sent an innocent man to jail then I think we should be told.
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