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This is racism, not Buddhism
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 05/09/2012
» How do you feel when you see rows of stern-looking Buddhist monks marching through the streets in full force to call for violent treatment of the downtrodden?
Violence won't save forests
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 16/08/2012
» When maverick forest chief Damrong Pidech ordered a lighting attack on a plush resort in the Tap Lan National Park by thousands of fully armed men last week, he was hailed as a national hero by the media and forest conservation NGOs.
2,600 years on, we're stuck fast in a moral rut
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 02/08/2012
» Two thousand and six hundred years ago today, the Buddha gave his first sermon which was to become the cornerstone of Buddhist teachings: Avoid extremism, understand the reality of suffering, its nature and its cessation, and then follow the middle path of eight practices to free oneself of suffering.
Myanmar's chance to help Rohingya
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/06/2012
» Is the sectarian violence between the Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in Rakhine state threatening the nascent democracy in Myanmar? That is the question the world is asking.
Crackdown on forest dwellers sheer injustice
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 17/05/2012
» Amnuay Sangkaew believed her farmland in the Bantad mountain region of Trang province was finally safe from eviction threats now that her forest village is under the government's community land ownership programme.
Change will only come from the bottom up
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 05/04/2012
» Constant threats of violence from the divisive, colour-coded politics. Endless bloodshed in the restive South. Fierce resistance against decentralisation from officialdom. Politicians of all shades paying lip service to political reform. An authoritarian education system. Explosive popular resentment against disparity and social injustice.
Drugs fuel descent into hopelessness in far South
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 15/03/2012
» Rofiah used to believe her traditional village in the far South was the best and safest place for her sons to grow up as good Muslims. Not anymore.
Widows pray for peace in a wretched land
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 08/03/2012
» Having lost her husband in the southern violence and forced to struggle for her son's freedom from detention in the Tak Bai crackdown, Yaena Salaemae has only one wish for International Women's Day today.
No one wants to talk about abortion
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 01/03/2012
» When a model told the media she just had an abortion out of pressure from her actor/singer ex-boyfriend _ a decision she now deeply regrets _ what did you think would ensue?
A victory for the stateless
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 02/02/2012
» As Rasita Suiyang broke down in tears of joy, others were jumping elatedly in front of parliament on Monday. For Rasita and tens of thousands in Thailand, the jubilation came after 10 years of an uphill legal struggle against ethnic and legal discrimination. All their lives they have had to live with the bitterness of being treated as stateless people without any legal rights in their own motherland.