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Keep Somchai from the black hole of history
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/03/2017
» 'Top Muslim lawyer disappears. Believed abducted for opposing martial law," read a headline in this newspaper 13 years ago.
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Untangling our twisted tales of rights
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 18/03/2017
» It's always a tale of two human rights.
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A backpack, bombs and a land of fear
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 10/09/2016
» The photo just broke your heart: A little yellow backpack with a cartoon pattern, crumpled on the road in Narathiwat after a bomb. We can imagine the rest. A few minutes before, it must have been slung on the back of a five-year-old girl before a deadly blast knocked it off. She was killed along with her father, Mayeng Wohbah, at 8.25am outside a school in Tak Bai, a place that has seen too many deaths, adults and children, over many years.
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Vote displays regime's new take on reality
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/07/2016
» Gabriel Garcia Marquez said it best: "When you reach absolute power, there is no contact with reality.""A powerful person, a dictator, is surrounded by interests and people whose final aim is to isolate him from reality."
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Army 'image' trumps the people's truth
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 30/07/2016
» Her uncle was beaten to death in an army camp and now she has been sued for revealing what happened. On Monday, Naritsarawan Kaewnopparat was arrested and charged for defamation and disseminating "false information" -- meaning the details of her uncle's harrowing death at the combat boots of his drill sergeants, who caned and kicked him from evening until past midnight back in 2011 at a Narathiwat barracks. Ms Naritsarawan, who has been fighting for a semblance of justice for six years, denied the charges and was released on bail.
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Charter tune plays like a broken record
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/06/2016
» One song is championed, the other outlawed. One song hides its prejudices in the subconscious, the other clear in its messages. Both songs are about the referendum. That is, in case we still have the referendum, because it's almost safer now to bet on Albania winning Euro 2016 than on our slippery Aug 7 poll taking place.
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Righteous women sock it to ‘big men’
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 13/02/2016
» Big men beware, for the strongest political statements this week came from women. First off: Beyonce at the Super Bowl halftime gig, where the singer smuggled in Black Panther iconology and a nod to Malcom X in a traffic-stopping spectacle that showed how pop could rattle the establishment. Coming in second, with less coverage though with go-hard-or-go-home directness, was Madonna at her first concert in Bangkok on Tuesday night. “When those fascist dictators posing as righteous men come for you with their big leather boots to shut you up,” she belted out to the well-heeled crowd, “you’d better be prepared to fight for what you believe in.”
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Playing the Trump card in our backyard
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/12/2015
» Is there a pattern here? The world watches in incredulity at the apparent display of right-wing, ultra-nationalist, anti-otherness outpouring that crosses the line from ideology into bigotry — from Donald Trump and his “No-Muslim” policy to the xenophobia-toeing Marine Le Pen in France, to Thailand’s own finger-pointing mobs shouting hatred at student activists, the threat of mass arrests and now the criminalisation of Facebook’s “likes”. Seriously? When squeezed, a wound bursts with pus. And pus is everywhere in the news.
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Awaken to the dark side in our Star Wars
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/12/2015
» No Star Wars spoiler ahead.The evil Empire has morphed into the First Order, equally evil and prone to intergalactic massacres. The rebels have become the Resistance, which sounds better. Darth Vader has found his ideological protégé in a black-masked, breathy-voiced acolyte. The Stormtroopers turn out to be space Janisseries, plucked from their homes and trained to be guards and marauders. The politics of Star Wars is sketchy, childlike and classical: the light against the dark, the oppressed against the dictator, blue against red, democracy against fascism. The Force, dormant or awakened, is the supreme power that holds the galaxy together. The ultimate battle is to stop the dark side from monopolising that force and reigning in space through violence and terror.
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Past actions lead to sense of numbness
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/07/2015
» The date is June 18, 2026, and this is a diary from the future. Thailand in 2026 feels like 2015 in many ways, except it’s worse, despite the half-finished high-speed rail to Chiang Mai — the budget bloated from three trillion baht to five trillion baht in 2020 — and the half-finished Pak Bara deep-sea port — the budget didn’t bloat, but the government shifted its priority to buying nuclear submarines.
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