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Giving names to the nameless
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 04/10/2016
» Thongchai Winichakul just turned 59 this past Saturday, but the bloodiest moment of his life took place when he was a student 40 years ago. Now a successful scholar, the black hole remains even though he maintains that he has "dealt with that historical trauma" through a mechanism of rationale -- and never vengefulness.
Political fights, human rights
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 26/09/2016
» It's not the cruellest scene from Oct 6, 1976, but cruelty was never in short supply that morning. What Somchai Homla-or experienced is just one of many unfortunate examples that remind descendants and survivors of how ugly mobilised nationalist mobs can turn modern Thai history into a bloodbath.
People's movements tread troubled paths
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/05/2016
» The month of May is the time when Thailand marks two political upheavals. One is the Black May uprising of 1992 when the pro-democracy movement was at a peak.
Victims' kin vent fury at NACC ruling
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 07/01/2016
» The mother of a nurse slain at Wat Pathum Wanaram during the horrific violence in May 2010 has vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Speaking for the silent
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 10/12/2015
» Circumstances make heroes and heroines. The more bluntly and bloodily repressive Thai society acts against the exploited and vulnerable, the more people will stand up to help protect the marginalised.
Climate of fear won't cover up regime's black sheep
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/11/2015
» In yet another sign of the intellectual suffocation which the regime is pressing upon us, two academics from Chiang Mai University are to appear before police for telling the military to stop interfering with academic freedom.
Activists, relatives mark 1976 massacre
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 07/10/2015
» Former students and activists say they remain determined to win justice for victims of the Oct 6, 1976, student massacre despite the current stark political climate and fewer people attending the annual commemoration ceremony yesterday.
Without decentralisation, unity talk is meaningless
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 11/08/2015
» The military regime has promised to bring unity and reconciliation back to society after the May 22 coup. But any reconciliation efforts have been significantly undermined by the regime's intensified campaign of centralisation and top-down administration.
Uighur saga harms Thai rights record
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 14/07/2015
» The deportation of 109 Turkic ethnic Uighurs, including women and children, to China last week has proved another setback to the military government's foreign affairs policies as the world pours condemnation on Bangkok, rather than Beijing, for its cloak-and-dagger move.
Government 'must heed' lesson of Black May
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 18/05/2015
» The May 1992 massacre should serve as a forceful reminder to current military leaders not to expand their powers through an undemocratic constitution, according to those who participated in the bloody protests.