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Don’t turn a blind eye to migrant woes
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 18/06/2014
» When the military junta first announced a policy to clean up the migrant workers’ mess, it certainly did not expect the move to explode so fiercely in its face.
Force is no way to solve our conflicts
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/05/2014
» For the past few months, Pattani had been relatively calm while Yala, Narathiwat, and parts of Songkhla in the restive South took the brunt of deadly car bombs, motorcycle bombs, arson, and M79 grenade attacks.
Brutality a sad fact of our daily life
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 21/05/2014
» While the country is still debating whether martial law is actually just a coup, people across the country are subjected to daily brutality, whether from deeply ingrained militarism in officialdom or our own psyche.
Why can’t we as Buddhists live in peace?
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/05/2014
» Visakha Bucha Day came and went quietly yesterday in our so-called Buddhist country, where people now look ready to tear one another’s throats just for having different political views.
Drums of war imperil 'good people's rally'
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/12/2013
» One of my best friends works in an office building next to Lumpini Park, where a hard-core anti-Thaksin Shinawatra group staged a protest for several months with little public support.
It's a power grab, not a push for reform
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 27/11/2013
» All parties must come to an end. So must all political protests. The country's biggest anxiety right now is how the anti-government rally will end.
Blanket bill will only stoke deep South tensions
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 06/11/2013
» If Thaksin Shinawatra believes that he can "set zero" for the deep South by extending the power of his blanket amnesty bill to also cover the southern insurgency, then he is dead wrong.
Politicians ignore plight of the poor
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/10/2013
» Every October, we get to revisit two significant events in contemporary Thai politics _ the Oct 14 students' uprising in 1973 and the Oct 6 massacre three years later.
Free trade deal threatens farmers
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 18/09/2013
» Is Thailand no longer an agricultural country? Many people believe so and they have the statistics to prove their point. I beg to differ.
Time ripe for whole new take on 'Thainess'
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/08/2013
» More than 5,000 people have been killed and millions of people are living in paralysing fear as the insurgency in the far South has now raged for nearly 10 years.