Songkitti Jaggabatara
Songkitti Jaggabatara ( Thai ทรง กิตติ จัก กา บาต ร์ , RTGS : Songkitti Chakkabat, pronunciation: [ soŋkìttìʔ t͡ɕàkkaːbàːt ]; born December 22, 1950 in Nakhon Ratchasima ) is a Thai general. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Thai Armed Forces Staff from 2008 to 2011 .
Life
Songkitti was a classmate of the future Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra at the preparatory school for the armed forces . He then attended the Royal Chulachomklao Military Academy . From 1972 to 1981 he served in the 3rd Cavalry Battalion of the Royal Guard. He began his service in the north of Thailand, where a low-intensity conflict with the armed units of the Communist Party of Thailand took place. When Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978 , he was serving on the border between Thailand and Cambodia.
In 1999 he commanded the "Thai Joint Task Force 972" , which dealt with the resolution of the crisis in East Timor in 1999 within the framework of the International Armed Forces East Timor (INTERFET) . He was second in the INTERFET chain of command.
In October 2001, the newly elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arranged for his confidante Songkitti to be appointed vice-commander of the Fourth Army, which is responsible for southern Thailand. This caused criticism because Songkitti had never served in the Fourth Army or in southern Thailand and his selection was considered politically motivated. In a 2002 report to Thaksin, Songkitti stated that the conflict with Muslim separatists in Thailand's three southernmost provinces was not a serious insurgency. With this he persuaded Thaksin to withdraw troops from the region. In April 2003 he was promoted to Lieutenant General and Commander of the Fourth Army Region. However, he encountered so much resistance in the officer corps that he was reassigned to another post in October of the same year. In fact, the southern Thailand conflict escalated from 2004 .
On October 1, 2008, Songkitti was promoted to commander in chief of the Armed Forces Staff, formally the highest position in the Thai military. In April 2010 he was a director of the newly established Center for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES). The CRES was founded to restore order in Bangkok and various provinces of Thailand in the wake of the unrest in 2010 . On October 1, 2011 he was replaced by General Thanasak Patimaprakorn as Commander in Chief.
Awards
For his services to INTERFET, he received the Order of Australia with the rank of " Honorary Member " and the International Force East Timor Medal .
On January 13, 2011, the President of Singapore , Sellapan Ramanathan , awarded him the highest military order of the city-state, the Darjah Utama Bakti Cemerlang (Tentera) for his services in the cooperation of the Thai armed forces and the armed forces of Singapore .
family
Songkitti is married to Poranee Jaggabatara, they have two daughters and a son.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c curriculum vitae. (pdf; 438 kB) (No longer available online.) In: .rtarf.mi.th. Archived from the original on April 18, 2011 ; Retrieved March 26, 2012 (Thai, Unknown Language, English, Biography). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b President Nathan confers Top Military Award on Thai Chief of Defense Forces. In: MINDEF Singapore. January 13, 2011, accessed March 23, 2012 .
- ^ Duncan McCargo : Thaksin and the Resurgence of Violence in the Thai South. In: Rethinking Thailand's Southern Violence. National University of Singapore Press, 2007, p. 45.
- ↑ a b Thai General Honored for Service in East Timor. In: Australian Department of Defense website. October 6, 2000, accessed March 23, 2012 .
- ^ McCargo: Thaksin and the Resurgence of Violence in the Thai South. 2007, pp. 45-46.
- ^ McCargo: Thaksin and the Resurgence of Violence in the Thai South. 2007, p. 49.
- ↑ Ministry of Defense (DOC file; 72 kB), Royal Thai Armed Forces, September 30, 2008. Retrieved March 25, 2012.
- ↑ Thailand: Supreme Commander vows to restore order in wake of violent anti-government demonstrations. In: accessmylibrary.com. April 13, 2010, accessed March 23, 2012 .
- ↑ Wassana Nanuam: King endorses reshuffle list. (No longer available online.) In: Bangkok Post . October 1, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 26, 2012 (English). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Defense Cooperation Scholarship Program. In: Website of the Australian Embassy in Thailand. Retrieved March 23, 2012 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Songkitti Jaggabatara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Thai general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nakhon Ratchasima |