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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.
Asean's tough guys dig in
Asia focus, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 15/08/2016
» Citizens of Thailand are not alone in the region when it comes to having to put up with dialogue-averse strongman leaders looking to consolidate authoritarian power.
Detained poet blasts military regime
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/05/2016
» A poet is continuing to challenge the regime in a military court, almost two years after being arrested, calling the coup-makers possible traitors.
Fate of Khon Kaen model defendants uncertain
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 07/05/2016
» Two years ago, a confused Virachai Chabunmee woke up to find himself banged up in prison with a bunch of inmates whom he was supposedly in cahoots with in an insurrection plot.
The mother of change
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 27/01/2016
» Her profile is not a fascinating story of a revolutionary mother. She's just a striving housewife juggling her many odds job as a housemaid, a fortune teller and a mother of four children. The eldest one of which happens to be a big pebble that is clanking in the powerful military's boots.
Waging a war of resistance
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/01/2016
» Thammasat student Sirawith “Ja New” Seritiwat has never thought of himself as particularly well off. The 23 year old, who studies political science, is from an ordinary family in Min Buri. The military, however, seems to think differently. During a recent house call, officers remarked on how he owns a washing machine and a “nice bike”.
Accidental Heroine
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 05/01/2016
» Most people regard Angkhana Neelapaijit as an accidental heroine. She was thrown into the spotlight when her husband, dedicated Muslim human rights lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit, disappeared in a controversial and depressing case that began during the Thaksin Shinawatra administration -- and ended last week when the Supreme Court acquitted five police officers initially suspected of being involved in his disappearance in March 2004.
Fall in violence spurs hope for peace in South
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 04/01/2016
» A reduction in violent incidents in the restive South offer fresh hope that a peace deal with insurgents can be reached, local civil society leaders say.
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.
Uphill battle looms after the honeymoon
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 15/11/2015
» Amid a mix of astonishment and relief in Myanmar, optimism is running high. The triumph of Aung San Suu Kyi in last week’s polls means democracy in Myanmar stands poised to stride ahead in the next five years, while progress in neighbouring countries has stalled, or slid backwards.