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Six more cases in Phuket, total 75
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 01/04/2020
» PHUKET: Six more people have been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of local Covid-19 cases in the island province to 75.
Families decry 'harsh' detentions of 'Facebook 8'
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 29/04/2016
» The families of those arrested for allegedly violating the Computer Crime Act have called for their release and decried their harsh and inhumane detentions.
Anti-coup protester acquitted on civil-rights defence
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/02/2016
» An anti-coup defendant arrested on charges of defying martial law and the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) order on political rallies has been acquitted.
Anniversary of protest crackdown sours
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 10/04/2015
» The fifth anniversary of the April 10, 2010, protest crackdown has turned bitter after the army forced relatives of red-shirt victims killed in the skirmishes to abandon all gatherings planned to mark the event.
Southern peace talks hang by a thread
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 02/02/2015
» While Bangkok and the rest of the nation accept the well-explained steps in the Prayut government's plan for the next phase of the southern peace dialogue, civic groups in the Deep South are not holding their breath.
Embracing militias with open arms
Spectrum, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 23/11/2014
» Two village defence volunteers stood timidly, holding unloaded M1 carbine rifles, with a group Ban Paku primary school students when a group of Bangkok journalists visited last week. The Pattani school had been torched a month earlier.
Critics dismiss army's local defence scheme
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 17/11/2014
» Yala — The 4th Army commander has pronounced the so-called "Thung Yang Daeng model" — new security provisions utilising armed civic defence volunteers and siren systems to alert defenders to attacks — a success and said it will be used in other areas of the restive South.
Smiling in plain view
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 08/10/2014
» It's very rare for him not to smile. He smiles when he speaks. In fact, he even smiled when he was hauled into a police truck on the night the military announced Thailand's 19th coup. He also smiled — as some photographs showed — when he was subsequently brought back twice to a military camp.
Muslim separatists fear breakdown of talks
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 10/12/2013
» Despite their different strategies and goals for the southern peace process, members of Muslim separatist movements who have engaged in southern peace talks with the government over the past 10 months share the same sentiment on the political crisis in Bangkok. They all fear that the peace process may be doomed.
Wat Pathum Wanaram victims shot dead by troops, court finds
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 06/08/2013
» The military, not the men-in-black, shot dead six people inside Wat Pathum Wanaram as security forces finished clearing red-shirt protesters from the Ratchaprasong intersection area on May 19, 2010, ending three months of anti-government protests, the Southern Bangkok Criminal Court ruled on Tuesday.