• OPINION

  Chaiyapoom case deserves truth, justice

  News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 22/03/2017

  » A short-film producer, a song writer and an advocate of the rights of stateless people, Chaiyapoom Pasae was still an adolescent when he was killed by a soldier in Chiang Mai last Friday aged 17. But security officers described him as a suspected armed, illicit drug trafficker, and said that his extra-judicial killing was an act of "self-defence and unavoidable".

• OPINION

  Justice for Chaiyapoom

  News, Editorial, Published on 23/03/2017

  » Finally, the government has agreed to set up a probe into the extrajudicial killing of a Lahu activist who was gunned down by a soldier in Chiang Mai last week. An army spokesman pledged to clear up the case and ensure justice is served. Yesterday, a panel was formed under the 3rd Region Army to investigate the case.

• OPINION

  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.

• OPINION

  Tale of activist's 'stupidity' hard to swallow

  News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 24/03/2017

  » Chaiyapoom Pasae must have been really stupid. He was a local Lahu boy. He knew where the military had set up their semi-permanent checkpoint. He had with him 2,800 tablets of ya ba, a knife and a hand grenade -- all stuff that could put him in jail.

• OPINION

  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.

• OPINION

  Suspicion will grow unless video released

  News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 28/03/2017

  » The key piece of evidence that will most likely reveal whether the extrajudicial killing of Lahu activist Chaiyapoom Pasae at a military checkpoint in Chiang Mai was justified should be CCTV footage of the incident.

• OPINION

  2103op-PostBag

  News, Published on 21/03/2017

  » Prachatai.com on Sunday reported that Chaiyapoom Pasae, a 17-year-old Lahu activist, was summarily killed by soldiers who claim he was a drug suspect and that he resisted arrest in Chiang Mai's Chiang Dao District.

• OPINION

  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.

• OPINION

  Army take on Lahu killing chills to bone

  News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/03/2017

  » This is the quote of the week, a line that should be emblazoned on T-shirts with the boldest font and distributed to all conscripts. Defending the hotly contested extra-judicial killing of the Lahu activist, 3rd Region Army chief Vijak Sriribunsop said: "Firing one shot at him was reasonable. If it were me, I might have put the [machine gun] on automatic mode."

• OPINION

  No right to bear arms, no right to violence

  News, Suranand Vejjajiva, Published on 28/03/2017

  » Three separate incidents in last few weeks defined a deep-rooted malevolence that continues to tear the fabric of Thai society apart.

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