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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.
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Surachai jailed on fifth lese majeste charge
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 28/05/2012
» The Criminal Court on Monday formally convicted and sentenced Red Siam core member Surachai "Sae Dan" Danwattananusorn on a further charge of lese majeste, adding two-and-a-half years to his current prison term.
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Lese majeste defendant pleads guilty
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/01/2012
» Lese majeste defendant Surachai Danwattananusorn has pleaded guilty to two offences involving speeches he gave at Doi Saket in Chiang Mai and Lat Phrao in Bangkok in 2010, but will fight a third case.
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Bloody 1992 crackdown by military remembered
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 18/05/2012
» Democracy activists gathered near Sanam Luang yesterday to commemorate the May 1992 bloody crackdown on protesters and to honour those who died fighting military rule 20 years ago.
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The scholar who was there
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 27/10/2016
» Kasian Tejapira is a professor of political science at Thammasat University and a prolific writer who has put out books, poems and more than 1,000 academic and newspaper articles since 1981. His key works include Toppling Thaksin; The Post-Modernisation Of Thainess; Imagined Uncommunity: The Lookjin Middle Class And Thai Official Nationalism; and The Irony Of Democratisation And The Decline Of Royal Hegemony In Thailand. All of them are often referenced in academic papers and debates on Thai society.
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Giving names to the nameless
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 04/10/2016
» Thongchai Winichakul just turned 59 this past Saturday, but the bloodiest moment of his life took place when he was a student 40 years ago. Now a successful scholar, the black hole remains even though he maintains that he has "dealt with that historical trauma" through a mechanism of rationale -- and never vengefulness.
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Finding 'fatherhood' in unlikely places
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/12/2015
» Being a father transcends bloodlines, biological ties and even the health conditions of the offspring, as renowned artist Sannarong Singhaseni has discovered. When Sannarong first dated his future wife at Silpakorn University in the 1970s, he often spent time with her younger sister, Samanjit Saengjak, a little girl with Down Syndrome.
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Protect gay rights in law, govt urged
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 16/12/2015
» Thailand will have to embrace the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people if it truly believes in safeguarding human rights, as their needs are important too, activists told a seminar yesterday.
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Activists, relatives mark 1976 massacre
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 07/10/2015
» Former students and activists say they remain determined to win justice for victims of the Oct 6, 1976, student massacre despite the current stark political climate and fewer people attending the annual commemoration ceremony yesterday.
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Open and public discussion remains a risky business
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 13/10/2015
» There have been stark differences in the commemorative events for the Oct 14, 1973 student uprising and the Oct 6, 1976 massacre. The first was about the triumph for the democratic forces of the students, while the latter was the opposite. This year's commemorations were no exception.
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