BANGKOK - Just over a week ago he was exercising alone in a leafy public park. Now he keeps fit in a dusty prison yard, eyed by hundreds of convicts bemused to see former Thai public health minister Rakkiat Sukthana doing time for corruption.
Were it not for the work of unrelenting activist medical workers, Rakkiat would have remained at liberty like any other graft-stained politician or official. These figures will not be joining him, however; while political will remains absent and the public apathetic, the tide will not turn against corruption in Thailand.
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