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Faces of sacrifice
Life, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 13/10/2023
» Is the appointed Senate integral to a regime of democracy? Should students enjoy the right not to wear uniforms? How about freedom of speech? Or assembly? At what point should fair criticism be taken as an insult to be punished by law, and when will street protests come to an end?
Powers-that-be see no hypocrisy in their actions
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 23/03/2021
» Is it a case of split personality or mass delusion?
Section 112's return adds fuel to protest fire
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 01/12/2020
» The government's re-embracing of the lese majeste law has been marked by contention and dishonesty.
Using force is no way to defend the monarchy
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 10/11/2020
» Do royalists really believe that the use of force, hate-mongering and pitching one protest against another are the best ways to defend the monarchy?
The architects of this ruinous mess must go
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 03/11/2020
» Is it time to accept that we are witnessing an unbridgeable divide, a fissure so wide and deep no force no matter how mighty can narrow it let alone the mere band-aid solution of a reconciliation committee?
Clock ticking for PM to avoid disgrace
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 20/10/2020
» As the tiny specks of light from the protesters' mobile phones at the student-led rallies grow into an ever-widening galaxy of discontent by the day, the lighting along the road ahead for Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha only seems to get darker.
Temperatures may rise during red-hot October
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 22/09/2020
» The Prayut Chan-o-cha regime could be staring at its own Kodak moment. So too the royal-nationalistic network behind it.
Student protests herald winds of change
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 18/08/2020
» Something has to change.
Putting a lid on youth discontent is also 'not okay'
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 11/08/2020
» If Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is "not okay" with the Red Bull scion's hit-and-run case, he should not be okay with the arrest of human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa and student activist Panupong Chadnok either.
Besieged Prayut government has birthday blues
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 21/07/2020
» What a difference a year makes.