I don't want to call Kritsuda a liar. She has been through a terrible ordeal, and then managed to get out of the country with the help of influential red activists, and she is no doubt grateful to them. They told her to exaggerate her ordeal as much as possible, claiming that would help her and help the red cause, and she did what they asked. Just as she said what the junta wanted her to say when she appeared on Thai TV. She is in a very vulnerable position and I have great sympathy and respect for her.
Kritsuda seems like a very brave and smart young woman, and I hope that when she recovers from her recent ordeal, she will feel strong and confident enough to tell her own story, not the story that others want her to tell.