Bangkok Post
In our lives we surely must have come across one of those unfortunates – the short-sighted girl who loses her spectacles on a camping trip; the nice boy who makes one simple mistake and his life spirals downhill to that miserable place of what-could-have-been; the person who seems to stumble just a little but falls all the way into the deep, dark abyss…
I often think of Veera Somkhwamkid as one such unfortunate soul.
For some inexplicable reason, Mr Veera finds himself in a corner so painfully tight that no choice seems available to him that will not entail his ending up in utmost misery.
I will never know what prompted Mr Veera to “cross the line” and walk across that uncertain borderline on that sunny day right before New Year’s. In the video taken by one of his 6 companions (which ironically ended up as evidence against him in the Cambodian court) Mr Veera appeared energetic and confident, a man fully assured of the path he’d chosen and the righteousness of his cause.
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