Thailand shocked at corporal punishment case
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To Thailand, where local television this week aired secretly-recorded mobile phone footage showed a teacher at a Catholic boarding school hitting dozens of students on the buttocks with a cane wrapped with electrical wire.
The students were punished for failing to clean their living quarters. Corporal punishment of school students is illegal in Thailand. St. Mary's School in the northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima says the teacher's been sacked and police will be allowed to handle the matter.
Presenter: Christine Webster
Speakers: Amalee McCoy, Child Protection Specialist for the United Nations Childrens Fund, UNICEF based in Bangkok; Thongbai Thongpao, Thai lawyer and Human Rights Activitist
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