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Lawyer calls for activist killing video
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/06/2018
» The lawyer of slain Lahu rights activist Chaiyaphum Pasae has asked the army to show closed circuit TV footage of the incident in which he was shot dead by a soldier in Chiang Mai in March last year.
Seeking truth and justice
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 27/09/2017
» After moments of introduction, Chaiyapoom's face appears on the projection screen, a makeshift silver screen like the one on which his films could have been shown. The singing voice too belongs to the 17-year-old Lahu activist, killed in March this year for resisting arrest after soldiers allegedly found methamphetamine pills in his car.
Activist death still a mystery
News, Editorial, Published on 16/09/2017
» Almost six months after young Lahu activist Chaiyapoom Pasae was shot dead at a checkpoint in Chiang Mai's Chiang Dao district, the case remains a mystery.
Clear air on activist death
News, Editorial, Published on 19/05/2017
» Two months after the death of young Lahu activist Chaiyapoom Pasae, anxiety grows as the investigation into the case proceeds at a snail's pace.
Carry on killing
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 09/04/2017
» The new constitution promulgated on Thursday by His Majesty the King re-inserts a section tossed out immediately after the May 2014 coup by the general prime minister when he decreed an interim charter with the precious Section 44. The new supreme law has an actual ban on torture, beating people to death, use of meat hooks during discipline sessions. And so on.
OAG evades the issue
News, Postbag, Published on 09/04/2017
» Re: "OAG says City Hall must do more to ensure building safety", (BP, April 6).
The army and extrajudicial killings
News, Published on 05/04/2017
» On March 17, Chaiyapoom Pasae, a young ethnic Lahu activist, was slain by a soldier at a checkpoint in Chiang Mai's Chiang Dao district. This followed the earlier, almost identical killing of an ethnic Lisu, Abea Sea-moo, on Feb 15 in the same district. By definition an extrajudicial killing, and subject to ongoing police and military investigations to see if the soldier was acting in self-defence, the likelihood of Chaiyapoom's death was exacerbated by three factors: Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's granting of police powers to the military, extremely high levels of racial intolerance, and the continuing use of the death penalty.
Thailand's murky, muddled road ahead
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 31/03/2017
» In a new era of transformative technologies and tectonic geopolitical shifts, standing still is tantamount to falling behind. This is what Thailand is doing. Its recent news flow indicates the country is mired in a regressive holding pattern.
Police hesitant over releasing Lahu video
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 29/03/2017
» Police are hesitating over whether to release CCTV footage allegedly showing the fatal shooting of a Lahu activist by a soldier in Chiang Mai two weeks ago.
Being rich is still the best defence of all
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 29/03/2017
» As I was preparing to leave home yesterday morning to meet a group of poor and landless people at a forum and hear their stories of injustice, the Associated Press was reporting a story on the Red Bull heir, who hit a policeman with his car. The headline was "'Red Bull killer' found living the good life".