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For the first time, the junta has arranged a so-called attitude adjustment session outside a military barrack. The summoned activist said this change would help improve the junta’s image. 
 
Gen Prawit Wongsuwan, the deputy junta head, recently said that the so-called attitude adjustment sessions, the coercive discussions forced upon political dissidents by the military, will no longer be held in military barracks in order to make things seem softer and less intimidating.
 
On Wednesday, 1 June 2016, Srisuwan Janya, President of the Stop Global Warming Association, posted on Facebook that he was summoned for an attitude adjustment session at Laksi District Office, Bangkok, making him the first person to undergo a session outside a military barracks, Thai News Agency (TNA) reported. 
 
Srisuwan said the new version of the attitude adjustment session was a good policy which could lead to social reconciliation in the future and also improve the junta’s image, TNA reported.
 
According to the Facebook post, Srisuwan was expected to report at 11.00 am but he actually appeared at the District Office at 12.50 pm. He told the media that the junta authorities decided to change the venue to a restaurant near the office because they want to avoid people who had been waiting to show support for Srisuwan, TNA reported.     
 
Srisuwan was summoned for his criticism of the Baan Mankong Project, a government collective housing programme, which lacked progress for a long while due to the government’s failure to persuade local people to move in.
 
“As I am an advisor to the local people, I think government agencies such as the Community Organizations Development Institute and the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security should not force people to move in. They should give people as much information about the project as possible so that people could make an informed decision,” TNA quoted Srisuwan as saying
 
 
 
Srisuwan Janya (green shirt) receives flowers from people at Laksi District Office  (source: Srisuwan’s Facebook page)

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