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NCPO: It's not a coup
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/06/2014
» The military had to "take over the administration" to restore national security and establish a sustainable democracy after social divisions are mended, according to National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) spokesman Werachon Sukondhapatipak.
Red shirts to mark May 19 violence
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 19/05/2014
» Red-shirt members will commemorate the May 19, 2010 crackdown today on Aksa Road in the Phutthamonthon area instead of Ratchaprasong intersection in central Bangkok as during the past three years.
UDD to commemorate May 19 crackdown
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 18/05/2014
» Things will be different from previous commemorations of the May 19, 2010 crackdown when red shirts gather on Monday to remember the violence at Ratchaprasong and pay respects to the Italian photographer who was shot dead.
Poll only way out of crisis, activists say
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 15/05/2014
» An election held as soon as possible is the only feasible way of reaching a peaceful solution to the current political crisis, according a coalition of political activist groups.
Losing our sanity in the political abyss
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 13/05/2014
» The political chaos made me rush to check my Oxford Learners’ Dictionary for the meaning of "sanity" (the state of having a normal healthy mind; and the state of being sensible and reasonable). It is something that is currently hard to find in our society as warring parties try to justify their own unbending aims. Those holding the middle ground will be automatically dubbed “un-Thai”, disloyal, or hired/paid by the other side.
Sister of slain Italian journalist dies
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 29/04/2014
» Elisabetta Polenghi, the sister of the Italian journalist killed during the May, 2010, crackdown against red-shirt demonstrators died Monday in Milan. She was 50.
The shock waves from society’s dead poet
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 27/04/2014
» The daylight murder of pro-government poet Mai Nueng Kor Kunthee has raised concerns of targeted assassinations of those deemed disloyal to the establishment, similar to the violence that preceded the October, 1976, massacre.
Rally will be litmus test for both sides
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 17/04/2014
» All eyes will be watching what happens over the weekend after the red shirts kick off their rally Friday to support their embattled leader Yingluck Shinawatra.
Agencies want PM out, says Suranand
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 21/03/2014
» Independent agencies are working hard to drive caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from her post, but military intervention is unlikely unless violence erupts nationwide, said PM's secretary-general Suranand Vejjajiva.
Former lese majeste cons pool efforts to end stigma
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 20/03/2014
» Former prisoners jailed for lese majeste and crimes related to political unrest have set up a support network to deal with the social stigma of their criminal records.