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Critical thinking takes back seat with NCPO’s core values
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 11/11/2014
» It is becoming a harsh reality that my children will grow up in an authoritarian society like I did in the 1970s.
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.
Court jails theatre pair for 12 more days
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 02/10/2014
» The Ratchadapisek Court yesterday approved a police request to extend the detention of two lese majeste defendants from a drama troupe for another 12 days.
Action and reaction: repression and defiance
Asia focus, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 29/09/2014
» After nearly two decades in China's shadow, people in Hong Kong are growing intolerant of having their grievances suppressed under "one country, two systems".
Keep talking, Irish peacemakers urge
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 28/08/2014
» Peace talks on ending the southern conflict should carry on despite the prospect of more violence, three men who were party to the Northern Ireland conflict have said.
Military regime can't turn back the clock of progress
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/08/2014
» My memory of one of this country's democratic milestones — the student uprising of Oct 14, 1973 — was my grandmother sobbing while watching His Majesty the King's announcement on TV about a new government replacing the military dictatorship that students had tried to topple.
The deafening silence of those defying orders
Spectrum, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 03/08/2014
» ‘Was three years in jail not enough? Why are they still chasing me, linking me with things that I don’t know about,” complained Thanthawut Taweewarodomkul, a former lese majeste convict who has been living in exile since the junta summonsed him in the first weeks after the coup.
Public can afford to be less uncritical of the coup
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 08/07/2014
» Congratulations to the military for taking control of the nation and managing to win over the public in opinion polls, even if they are doing so with the connivance of a largely uncritical media.
Rights body urged to find detained activist Sombat
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 10/06/2014
» The family of anti-coup campaigner Sombat Boonngamanong yesterday petitioned the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to help locate the activist who was arrested last Thursday in Chon Buri province.
Junta releases more detainees
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 31/05/2014
» Most of the first group of anti-coup detainees, except The Nation journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk, have been released while others have been charged with lese majeste offences and for ignoring the junta’s orders.