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Protest urges iLaw bill backing
News, Published on 15/11/2020
» Pro-democracy demonstrators on Saturday demanded that parliament pass a charter amendment bill sponsored by civil group Internet Law Reform Dialogue (iLaw), saying the proposal was tantamount to being a voice of the people.
Monument wrapped to cap dramatic day of rallies
Online Reporters, Published on 14/11/2020
» Three pro-democracy rally groups came together on Saturday to wrap Democracy Monument in a huge cloth banner bearing messages denouncing the government and calling for reform.
PM must embrace youthful ingenuity
News, Editorial, Published on 25/10/2020
» Although the October 6, 1976 massacre marked a bloody end to the hope of student activists in the aftermath of the popular uprising three years earlier, the spark ignited by the 1973 generation has flickered back to life this year as protests led by a new student movement have flared up across the nation.
An unexpectedly successful protest
Oped, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 23/09/2020
» A new generation of Thai protesters has broken into the open, and while their defiant self-image as the generation that will finally fix things may be naive, they have already left their mark with the unexpectedly successful demonstration at Sanam Luang in the heart of old Bangkok on Sept 19-20.
Arrests will fuel dissent
Oped, Editorial, Published on 21/08/2020
» With the arrests of more activists in connection with their role in the July 18 rally at Democracy Monument, which was organised by the Free Youth group, the country is inching once again toward political strife.
Police defend rally arrests
News, Post Reporters, Published on 21/08/2020
» National police chief Pol Gen Chakthip Chaijinda on Thursday insisted police officers had no choice but to enforce the law and arrest youth protest leaders this week.
Nine, including 2 rappers, granted bail
Gary Boyle, Published on 20/08/2020
» The Criminal Court has approved bail requests for nine people, including lawyer Anon Nampa and two rappers, arrested over the past 20 hours for their roles in the July 18 and Aug 3 rallies.
Nine, including Anon and 2 rappers, granted bail
Online Reporters, Published on 20/08/2020
» The Criminal Court has approved bail requests for nine people, including lawyer Anon Nampa and two rappers, arrested over the past 20 hours for their roles in the July 18 and Aug 3 rallies.
'Let them have their say'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/08/2020
» Schools have been told to allow students to express their political views on campuses in what is seen as an attempt to defuse growing frustration and demands for political change.
Too cruel to contemplate
Life, Chris Baker, Published on 07/08/2020
» The silhouette at the top right of this achingly beautiful book cover recalls a famous photograph from the Thammasat massacre of Oct 6, 1976. The photo showed a dead man hung from a tree being beaten by a chair while a ring of people watch. The silhouette is deliberately ghostly. The incident is well-known but little known. The photo is famous but the dead man, the man wielding the chair, and the prominent bystanders have never been identified. Even the location of the tree is uncertain. The whole event is full of "unanswered questions". The memory of the incident is in a limbo which Thongchai Winichakul calls "the unforgetting".