• THAILAND

  Opening minds with an ancient 'mandala'

  News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/09/2019

  » Travelling around Thailand is a good way to learn about local history and culture. The challenge, however, is how to understand the country's ancient past beyond the usual nationalistic fervour.

• OPINION

  Billy's death should not be in vain

  News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/09/2019

  » Last week, the mystery was over.

• OPINION

  More violence ahead for forest poor

  News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 17/07/2019

  » Now that the junta has revoked its draconian order on nationwide forest evictions, will life for the 10-million-strong people who live in national forests be more secure? The answer is no.

• OPINION

  Why violence persists in our forests

  News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 10/06/2019

  » In the corridors of power, as female politicians in opposite camps were wrangling over what-you-should-wear for their first day in the parliament, some 350 kilometres from Bangkok, 61-year-old peasant Sinuan Pasang was thrown into jail for trying to protect her land.

• OPINION

  Scapegoating not a solution to haze

  News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 25/04/2019

  » Despite feeling bitter from being arrested and falsely condemned as an arsonist, 56-year-old Boonpan Saenkhammuen went back to fight the raging fires on Doi Luang Mountain in Chiang Dao Wildlife Sanctuary the next day.

• OPINION

  Forests cannot grow on state violence

  News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 16/03/2019

  » Millions of forest dwellers will soon be subjected to more severe state repression than Thai Muslims in the deep South under the suffocating emergency law.

• OPINION

  Autocratic bureaucracy is killing us

  News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 18/02/2019

  » Big business won. Again. We should not be surprised nor disappointed at the government's decision to support the weed killer paraquat which poisons the environment and makes us sick. We should be angry.

• OPINION

  Autocratic bureaucracy is our No.1 foe

  News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/01/2019

  » As the end of absolute military rule nears, the junta is pumping out a series of public policies that will wreak havoc on the environment and intensify state violence against the forest poor.

• OPINION

  What next after the passing of iconic Ko-ee?

  News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 08/10/2018

  » At 107, ethnic Karen elder Ko-ee Mimee had only one wish -- to return to his ancestral land deep in the Kaeng Krachan jungle and die there. On Friday, the icon of indigenous forest dwellers' struggles against state violence and injustice passed, his last wish unfulfilled and the future of his people hanging in the balance.

• OPINION

  Lawsuits aggravate forest poor's plight

  News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/07/2018

  » The polluters must pay. Most definitely. But when state authorities encroach on indigenous peoples' customary land, send them to jail for living in "protected" forest and -- on top of that -- demand exorbitant compensation for causing global warming, this is not the "polluters pay" policy. This is oppression beyond being unjust. It's pure malice.

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