Enforced Disappearance and Torture of Persons: State Responsibility on the Rights of the People

Abstract

According to the natural law theory, all human beings are believed to possess their inherent natural right to life. Such a right asserts that everyone's life must be protected from arbitrary encroachment by state agents with the right to self-defense upheld as a universal moral lynchpin. Dissappearances enforced by state agencies and torture constitute an explicit violation of this principle. Due to shortcomings in the prohibition against forced disapperances in Thailand, this paper seeks to recommed th extent to which such a protection should be implemented in its legal system.