AKP Phnom Penh, October 14, 2025 -- An advisor to Human Rights Watch in Thailand has become the third prominent figure to condemn Thailand’s border sound harassment as serious violation of the Convention Against Torture.

According to the Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC)’s announcement AKP received this afternoon, Mr. Sunai Phasuk, Advisor to Human Rights Watch in Thailand, is the third person, after Ms. Angkhana Neelapaijit, Member of the Thai Senate and a senior official of the Thai Office of the Prosecutor General, to recognise this as a serious human rights violation under the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT). This has brought Thailand into international shame for its serious human rights violations.

The CHRC quoted the following excerpt:
Sunai Phasuk stated that "the use of loudspeakers to sound bells and aircraft by Mr. Kan Jom Phalang is a psychological operation involving sound in torture, a violation of human rights, international law (especially the Convention against Torture) and Law of Thailand.

The main purpose is to amplify the sound through the barbed wire towards the Cambodian community in the villages of Chork Chey and Prey Chan, which is a violation of the ceasefire agreement by disturbing, threatening and creating fear among the Cambodian people.

The parking of vehicles equipped with loudspeakers in the martial law zone, where no one can enter at will, especially at night, even if the perpetrators are not in charge of authority, why did the army not stop it, and still do this without any knowledge."

On Oct. 11, the CHRC submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the use of disturbing sounds as a form of intimidation and psychological harassment of Cambodian people along the Cambodian-Thai border.

By C. Nika