Salute to a salapao seller
Three chai-yos for salapao vendor Kamthon Amphanprem, who started the “#sons of police, so what” hashtag campaign and led supporters to the National Police Office and Channel 3. They are motivated by the well-founded fear that the six assailants who alleg
Khun Kamthon has great moral courage. As a simple vendor, he is daily at the mercy of ill treatment by the police. He never knew the victim in this case, yet he seeks justice for him.
“Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence,” Robert Kennedy once said. “Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.”
Kamthon is a role model for all of us, especially those who see wrongdoing but keep silent.
Burin Kantabutra
