❓ Claim checked: Anutin announced a policy to build a border wall.
✅ Fact-check result: True
📝 Summary of the content:
On 24 December 2025, the Facebook page “Khao Ded Clip Dang” posted an image of Anutin Charnvirakul, Acting Prime Minister and leader of the Bhumjaithai Party, with overlaid text stating:
“Anutin announces a policy to build a border wall. Recruiting 100,000 volunteer soldiers. 4-year service. Salary 12,000 baht.”
Additional details were provided in the comments:
“Mr. Anutin Charnvirakul, leader of Bhumjaithai Party, announced the party’s policy to build a security wall to protect Thai people from threats and prevent illegal smuggling. The party will recruit 100,000 volunteer soldiers, replacing conscription with voluntary service to ensure motivated individuals defend the country. The service term will be 4 years, with a salary of 12,000 baht, along with skills training, career development, and opportunities to continue a military career. Thailand will have stronger manpower and a stronger military.”
The content shared by “Khao Ded Clip Dang” was identical to an earlier news post by the Facebook page “Nation Weekend”, published about one hour earlier. That post was shared more than 1,300 times and received nearly 5,000 comments, most of which supported building a wall along the Thai–Cambodian border.
🔎 Cofact’s verification:
On 24 December, Bhumjaithai Party held a policy announcement event ahead of the election. In the section on national security policy, Anutin spoke about building a “fence of the nation,” saying:
“Wherever I go, Thai people ask when we will build a fence. Bhumjaithai Party will definitely build a fence, but it will be a fence of the nation, a fence that ensures security and safety for the lives of all our people. We will build a national fence that protects against threats in all dimensions: military threats, war, drugs, smuggling, illegal imports of agricultural products that depress domestic prices, and illegal migrant labor. In addition, we will strengthen our country to prevent crimes such as scam networks, gambling, casinos, and gray capital… We will build a fence to protect the country from all of these.”
From the wording of the policy speech alone, Anutin did not explicitly use the term “wall,” but instead used the metaphor “fence of the nation” to describe the party’s security policy as a means of protecting the country and Thai people from security threats. He did not specifically mention constructing a physical wall along the Thai–Cambodian border.
However, on 27 December, the official Facebook page of Bhumjaithai Party released a short video clip of Anutin’s security policy statement with a caption stating that Bhumjaithai’s policy is to “build a wall to prevent invasion, illegal migrant labor, drugs, and illegal cross-border agricultural products.”
Cofact sought clarification from Nan, Boontida Somchai, spokesperson for the Bhumjaithai Party, on whether the “fence of the nation” policy mentioned by Anutin referred to the construction of a physical wall along the border.
The party spokesperson explained that the party uses the terms “fence” and “wall” interchangeably, both meaning measures to protect the country from all forms of threats. This includes the construction of physical walls along the Thai–Cambodian border or other problematic areas, where such construction is already underway in several locations.
“We are talking about walls both in the physical sense and through the use of military and security technology to detect threats along the border,” the spokesperson said.
📌 Cofact’s conclusion:
Anutin did not explicitly state at the policy announcement on 24 December that the party would build a wall along the Thai–Cambodian border, but he described the Bhumjaithai Party’s security policy metaphorically as building a “fence of the nation.”
Subsequently, the party communicated this policy using the phrase “building a wall to prevent threats,” consistent with the party spokesperson’s clarification that “fence of the nation” and “wall” have the same meaning—namely, a policy to protect the country from all forms of threats, including the construction of border walls, along with the use of technology and other security measures.
Note: This political fact-checking report is part of the project “Information Integrity Towards Fact-Free Fair Elections in Thailand”, conducted by Cofact, Thai PBS Verify, and Thammasat University, with support from the German Embassy in Thailand.
