News Forum - Police seize board game after claims it could cause insurrection in Thailand

[Thaiger]

Police officers in Yala yesterday seized a fun board game called Patani Colonial Territory from a coffee shop after a government official claimed that it could cause insurgency throughout the kingdom. For conspiracy theorists, this is up there with Elvis still lives. Officers in the southern Thailand province confiscated the offending game at the Life Coffee Slow Bar in the district under national security reasons, adding those involved in producing the game could be prosecuted pending an investigation. The game is related to the history of the Patani Kingdom. The Patani Kingdom was a prosperous, historical region some 400 years […]

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[TheDirtyDurian]

A tad sensitive.... 

[Viggen840]

Yet computer games that promote killing and such things as vehicle theft involving hit-and-run injuries/death are OK? As @TheDirtyDurian states above, just a tad sensitive. Of course, now that a politician has got their grubby hands on the subject, there is sure to be an honest investigation into the game... before it is banned and charges of treason and insurrection are laid...

[Mazz11]

If the board game is historically factual, how could it be illegal.

The truth is the truth and as much as some people would like to change the past (I would like to change some of my past ) , it is not possible.

[Viggen840]

2 hours ago, Mazz11 said:

If the board game is historically factual, how could it be illegal.

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it...