Two days before The international holocaustdagen 27. January, aroused the thai musikkgruppa BNK48 shock and disbelief when they conducted a TV-sent bandøving wearing t-shirts with the swastika. This reports The Independent.

the Diplomat Smadar Shapira on the israeli embassy in Bangkok is among those who respond.

– That the band’s frontman shows nazisymboler in this way, hurting the feelings of millions around the world, she writes on her Twitter page.

the lead Singer Pichayapa “Namsai” Natha lie now paddeflat. On the night of Sunday, delivered she a tårevåt apology from the stage during a concert.

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According to the South China Morning Post has the singer also gone out and apologized on their Facebook page.

“Forgive me and give me advice, so I can be an adult and do not commit such mistakes in the future. I can’t fix this bug, but I can promise that it never happens again,” she writes, according to the English-language hong Kong newspaper, which also writes that the swastika and nazi-effects are relatively common in Thailand.

the Reason should be the lack of historical awareness, rather than actual attitudes.

Not the first time

South China Morning Post points out a number of similar cases. In 2011 had a catholic school to apologize after students dressed up in nazi uniforms for a skoleparade.

Two years after it was the prestigious Chulalongkorn university’s trip, when students hung up a painting of Adolf Hitler alongside Superman and other superheroes, in connection with the graduation from college, according to The Telegraph.

Simon K. Li is the director of the hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Center. He believes the constant nazi-controversies due to a combination of ignorance and prejudice.

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– From time to time, we ask ourselves: is it pure ignorance? Cultural its insensitivity? Pure anti-semitism? Sometimes it can be all three, ” he says to The New York Times.

According to The Independent, there are also several who owe on the thai educational system, which, according to critics downgrades the world history for the benefit of a unified focus on Thailand’s history.

BNK48-fan Samruay Kraspra is one of them.

– What do you expect? We learn only about the wars between Thailand and Burma at the school, says she to the South China Morning Post.

Prasit Rudeekriengkrai, who also is a fan of the group, sets itself rejected.

– I’m over 40, and know nothing about this. When I saw the t-shirts, fell me not that it was going to be a problem, ” he says.

increase awareness

Sunday afternoon, met Natha and BNK48s manager Nataphol Pavaravadhana Israel’s ambassador to Thailand, Meir Shlomo, in order to excuse official. According to The New York Times, they discussed the “importance of history in general, and awareness of the holocaust and anti-semitism in particular”.

the Meeting ended with that the group went on to participate in a campaign to increase knowledge about the holocaust in the country.

This type Smadar Shapira on his Twitter page.

the Band has gone on to take part in activities in the utdanningsøyemed, together with the israeli embassy.

According to Shapira suggested the band themselves that they could contribute to workshops about the holocaust, to show their involvement in the case.

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