Khunying Pornthip Rojanasunand (Thai: พรทิพย์ โรจนสุนันท์, sometimes transliterated as Porntip Rojanasunan, born 1955) is a flamboyant Thai forensic pathologist, author and human rights activist. Thai (th ภาษาไทย, transcription: phasa thai, transliteration:; pʰāːsǎːtʰāj is the national and Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) The Kingdom of Thailand (ˈtaɪlænd ราชอาณาจักรไทย, râːtɕʰa-ʔaːnaːtɕɑ̀k-tʰɑj Pathology (from Greek grc πάθος pathos, "fate harm" and grc -λογία -logia) is the study and She has repeatedly publicly stated that she has come across evidence of police abuses during her work.
Pornthip is acting deputy director of the Justice Ministry's Forensic Science Institute in Bangkok and introduced DNA evidence to Thailand. Bangkok, known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (krūŋtʰêːp máhǎːnákʰɔn) or Krung Thep ( for short is the Capital, largest
Before her public criticism, autopsies of victims of alleged police abuse were carried out in the police's own forensic institute; this has since changed.
During the anti-drug campaign by the government of Thaksin Shinawatra in early 2003, more than 1,000 people vanished or were killed; Pornthip has shown that several of these deaths were caused by police. (ทักษิณ ชินวัตร IPA tɕʰinnawát Chinese: 丘[[wikt 達|達]] 新, Qiū Dáxīn nicknamed by the media as แม้ว (ทักษิณ ชินวัตร IPA tɕʰinnawát Chinese: 丘[[wikt 達|達]] 新, Qiū Dáxīn nicknamed by the media as แม้ว
She has written several books about her work. Easily the most prominent pathologist of Thailand, she gets regular media coverage with her allegations of abuse and her somewhat unorthodox appearance: red and orange hair, eccentric clothing and makeup, platform shoes.
The Thai English-language newspaper The Nation chose Pornthip, along with Chuwit Kamolvisit and Chote Wattanachet, as persons of the year for 2003. The Nation is a Broadsheet English -language daily Newspaper founded in 1971 published in Bangkok, Thailand, and owned Chuwit Kamolvisit ( Thai: ชูวิทย์ กมลวิศิษฎ์ (born August 29, 1961) is a controversial Thai politician who Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. She was honored by king Bhumibol Adulyadej with the title "Khunying". Bhumibol Adulyadej (ภูมิพลอดุลยเดช pʰuːmipʰon adunjadeːt Royal Institute: Phumiphon Adunyadet;) (born Monday 5 December 1927 Thai royal and noble titles signify relationship to the King The system is somewhat complicated and usually not well understood even by most Thai people
In the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, Pornthip took charge of the effort to identify victims of the tsunami in the Phang Nga region. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea Earthquake that occurred at 005853 UTC on December 26 2004 with an Epicentre off the west coast of A tsunami ((tsuːˈnɑːmi is a series of waves created when Phang Nga (พังงา is one of the southern provinces ( changwat) of Thailand, on the shore to the Andaman Sea. She and her team were widely praised for their hard work and dedication, but on January 13, 2005 Police General Nopadol Somboonsab complained that the police's identification centre in Phuket should have charge of all identification operations. Events 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople. 888 - Odo Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Phuket (ภูเก็ต pʰuːkɛt formerly known as Tha-Laang or Talang, or Junk Ceylon in Western sources a distortion of the Malay Tanjung Many commentators and Pornthip herself attributed the late intervention to Nopadol's personal vendetta against her[1]. Nopadol was ultimately successful, and the Phang Nga operation was closed down on February 3, 2005. Events 1112 - Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry uniting the fortunes of those two states Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [2]
The 2005 National Geographic documentary "Crime Scene Bangkok" tells her life story and covers her work in Phang Nga after the tsunami and her battle with the police. Overview The NGS's historical mission is "to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge while promoting the conservation of the world's cultural historical and natural
References
- ^ VICTIM IDENTIFICATION: Compromise reached over forensic task, The Nation, 16 January 2005
- ^ Unidentified Western bodies to be moved, The Nation, 25 January 2005
- On Death's Trail, a Detective Larger Than Life. The New York Times, April 13, 2002
- Thai Doctor Fashions a Life Working Among the Dead. This article is about the US Publication. For other newspapers magazines and alternate uses by the same name see The Nation (disambiguation. The New York Times, January 16, 2005
- Devoted doctor takes on her toughest challenge, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 January 2005
- Full text search of The Nation, yielding several hundred articles mentioning Pornthip Rojanasunand. The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H
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