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No easy way home for Thais in exile
Spectrum, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 21/06/2015
» The exiles sat on one side of the gymnasium, the military men and government officials on the other. There was an air of conciliation. But not all of the 467 displaced Muslims who attended Monday’s unprecedented meeting at a military camp in Narathiwat felt reassured after hearing the sympathetic words of government officials.
Jailed Anwar in fresh peace bid
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 02/05/2015
» People convicted of collaborating with insurgents in the far South should be allowed to participate in the ongoing peace negotiations between the government and separatist movements, not just those in exile, a jailed activist in Pattani prison has urged.
The path of most resistance
Spectrum, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/04/2015
» Their photos and names are not only held on civilian, police and military intelligence files. The armed forces have now spread warnings about them to non-military staff and family members situated in and around Bangkok barracks.
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.
Banpodj insists he is a lone voice
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 05/04/2015
» At the age of 66 and facing a long prison term, Husdin Ouiraiprayvan maintains there was never any malice in the hundreds of anonymous voice clips he produced which led to his arrest.
Elderly man gets jail for lese majeste
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 21/03/2015
» The Bangkok Military Court has sentenced a 67-year-old man to three years' imprisonment for writing defamatory remarks about the monarchy in a shopping mall toilet.
CDC split on gender quotas
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 28/02/2015
» The failure of charter drafters to decide on gender quotas for elected bodies may have prompted social activist Thicha Na Nakorn to resign from the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC), says a member.
Documenting the eye of the storm
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 21/01/2015
» When 46-year-old Nikolaus Freiherr von Nostitz, better known as Nick, sent emails to his contacts on Dec 20 seeking financial help, some thought it was a scam. Soliciting donations is uncharacteristic of the outspoken but humble Nostitz. For years, people could see that the German was a modest guy who roamed around Bangkok on his decade-old Kawasaki GTO motorcycle to cover the turbulent transformation of Thai politics, from both sides (or more) of the conflict.
Model citizens await fate in military court
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 15/12/2014
» Two bailed defendants allegedly involved in the so-called "Khon Kaen model" of red-shirt resistance insist they are innocent and had nothing to do with past red-shirt rallies.
Magazine editor loses lese majeste appeal
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 20/09/2014
» The Appeal Court yesterday upheld a lower court's 10-year lese majeste prison sentence for Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, former editor of Voice of Taksin magazine.