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Southern families dream of freedom from prison
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 30/12/2016
» The sweetest wish for those whose loved ones are in prison is nothing other than their freedom. Many have have been granted it in time to celebrate the New Year; many others still cling to hope.
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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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Few crisis lessons learned
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 03/10/2016
» Four decades after the Oct 6, 1976 bloodshed, one of the most gruesome chapters in modern Thai history has not yet been demystified by the Thai state, with some of the event's masterminds still powerful today, say academics.
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A rocky road to the draft constitution vote
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/07/2016
» A glance at the motto on the website of the Office of the Election Commission (EC) regarding the forthcoming charter referendum, which will take place in about three weeks' time, and many may gain the impression the process is going smoothly, without problems.
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The silent leader
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/06/2016
» Justice and equality are ingredients of a sustainable democracy, says Phuangkaew Sartprung, 74. Phuangkaew simply echoed what her father had adhered to throughout his life.
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People's movements tread troubled paths
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/05/2016
» The month of May is the time when Thailand marks two political upheavals. One is the Black May uprising of 1992 when the pro-democracy movement was at a peak.
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Pridi panel slams draft charter, NCPO
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/05/2016
» The latest junta-backed draft charter carries fewer democratic values than charters written after the 1932 revolution, scholars said yesterday at a ceremony marking the 116th birthday of the late statesman and coup leader Pridi Banomyong.
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Jit remains little known in Thailand
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 06/05/2016
» Half a century after the passing of revolutionary Jit Bhumisak, the general public has yet to recognise this intellectual whose justice-for-all crusade made him join the communist insurgency and die at the age of only 36.
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Remembering a faded revolutionary
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 05/05/2016
» SAKHON NAKHON -- Thailand needs to use something other than idolisation and propaganda to attract the younger generation to the scholarly works and ideology of late leftist intellectual Jit Phumisak, said historians commemorating the 50th anniversary of his death
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In search of elusive peace
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 23/02/2016
» The only thing that will resolve the violence in the Deep South is peace dialogue -- this could be just a dull, standard statement. But the proclamation bitterly uttered by those living amid the tense ideological and physical struggles in Thailand's southernmost provinces, where nearly 7,000 have died in the past 12 years, deserves respectful heed.
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