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อดีตตนเคยเป็นแฟนคลับของรายการเมืองไทยรายสัปดาห์ ของ นายสนธิ ลิ้มทองกุล แต่เริ่มเห็นว่าสิ่งที่ทั้งนายสนธิ และรัฐบาลทำนั้นไม่ถูกจึงหันเหมาต่อสู้ร่วมกับคนเสื้อแดง เป้าหมายเพียงเพื่ออยากให้รัฐบาลยุบสภาเลือกตั้งใหม่เท่านั้น วันที่ 13 มี.ค. ตนก็เริ่มเข้าร่วมชุมนุมที่ผ่านฟ้าฯ จนย้ายมาที่ราชประสงค์ต้องใช้ชีวิตอย่างยากลำบากตลอด 2 เดือน เพราะต้องนอนอยู่กลางถนนทั้งที่ไม่เคยคิดเลยว่า แค่เรียกร้องให้ยุบสภาจะต้องมีคนมาล้มตายมากขนาดนี้
Monday, May 31, 2010
Thai PM accused of human rights abuses - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Thai PM accused of human rights abuses - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Thailand's prime minister has been accused of violating the human rights of anti-government Red Shirt protesters.
The accusation was made during a heated parliamentary no-confidence debate.
The Thai opposition says prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva violated the rights of protesters when he ordered the military to disperse them from their protest site.
The opposition also says the army's approach was not in line with international standards.
Violence associated with the two-month rally and its dispersal killed 88 people.
But the prime minister says the army was defending itself against armed militants.
He says the government only ever planned to surround the rally site to block access to supplies.
Lawyers for Red Shirt figurehead, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, have hired an international war crimes expert to investigate the allegations.
Meanwhile, United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay called for an independent probe into the violence in Thailand.
She called for those responsible for rights violations to be held to account.
Read more from the link above.
Thailand's prime minister has been accused of violating the human rights of anti-government Red Shirt protesters.
The accusation was made during a heated parliamentary no-confidence debate.
The Thai opposition says prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva violated the rights of protesters when he ordered the military to disperse them from their protest site.
The opposition also says the army's approach was not in line with international standards.
Violence associated with the two-month rally and its dispersal killed 88 people.
But the prime minister says the army was defending itself against armed militants.
He says the government only ever planned to surround the rally site to block access to supplies.
Lawyers for Red Shirt figurehead, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, have hired an international war crimes expert to investigate the allegations.
Meanwhile, United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay called for an independent probe into the violence in Thailand.
She called for those responsible for rights violations to be held to account.
Read more from the link above.
Statement: War Crimes Expert Joins Investigation of Bangkok Deaths - Robert Amsterdam
Statement: War Crimes Expert Joins Investigation of Bangkok Deaths - Robert Amsterdam
"War Crimes Expert Joins Investigation of Bangkok Deaths"!
THANK YOU, INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS. IF BARBARIC BRUTALITY CAN HAPPEN IN THAILAND, WORSE CASES COULD ENSUE IN OTHER COUNTRIES UNLESS THE WORLD CARES ENOUGH TO INTERVENE.
WAR CRIMES EXPERT JOINS INVESTIGATION OF BANGKOK DEATHS
BANGKOK, May 31, 2010: International war crimes expert Professor GJ Alexander Knoops has joined the international legal team investigating the Thai Government's killing of 80 pro-democracy demonstrators and onlookers in Bangkok in May and April, the investigation's leader, international lawyer Robert Amsterdam announced today.
Six of the bodies were found in a "safe haven" temple.
Read more via the link above.
"War Crimes Expert Joins Investigation of Bangkok Deaths"!
THANK YOU, INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS. IF BARBARIC BRUTALITY CAN HAPPEN IN THAILAND, WORSE CASES COULD ENSUE IN OTHER COUNTRIES UNLESS THE WORLD CARES ENOUGH TO INTERVENE.
WAR CRIMES EXPERT JOINS INVESTIGATION OF BANGKOK DEATHS
BANGKOK, May 31, 2010: International war crimes expert Professor GJ Alexander Knoops has joined the international legal team investigating the Thai Government's killing of 80 pro-democracy demonstrators and onlookers in Bangkok in May and April, the investigation's leader, international lawyer Robert Amsterdam announced today.
Six of the bodies were found in a "safe haven" temple.
Read more via the link above.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Letter from America - The Failure of Thailand's Democracy - NYTimes.com
Letter from America - The Failure of Thailand's Democracy - NYTimes.com
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
Published: May 25, 2010
NEW YORK — A week before the Thai Army cleared anti-government demonstrators out of Bangkok and sent them packing back to their rural homes, a reporter at the daily State Department news briefing in Washington asked whether there were any “broader implications” about democracy in that country.
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
Published: May 25, 2010
NEW YORK — A week before the Thai Army cleared anti-government demonstrators out of Bangkok and sent them packing back to their rural homes, a reporter at the daily State Department news briefing in Washington asked whether there were any “broader implications” about democracy in that country.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Social disparity leads to conflict in Thailand
Social disparity leads to conflict in Thailand
Social disparity leads to conflict in Thailand
By Nutthathirataa Withitwinyuchon
BANGKOK, May 29 (Xinhua) -- The two-month melodrama of the anti- government protest led by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) ended abruptly on May 19, as the "red-shirts" core leaders surrendered themselves to the authorities following a day-long deadly clash between the troops and the protesters.
Disappointed protesters without leadership became rioters unfettered, setting ablaze in the following days Stock Exchange Building, Central World (the second largest shopping mall in South- East Asia), provincial halls, commercial banks, a television station, a movie theatre, telephone boosts and many other buildings.
The political turmoil, already under control according to the government, has left 88 people dead and 1,885 injured, including army forces and civilians, costing country's economy around 70 billion baht (2.12 billion U.S. dollars) and dividing country into two societies.
At the first glance, the anti-government protest, in addition to calling for democracy, seems to be an uprising of the poor demanding for the return of Thaksin, their hero, who was believed to be able to eliminate poverty and salvage them from distress. But in deeper look, it is more a confrontation of the main coalition Democrat party and social elites versus Thaksin and his supporters who wished to restore Thailand to the prior-coup condition. The genuine cause of the conflict lies deeper into the Thai society.
In Thailand, a man is classified by his occupation, level of education attainment and location of residence or work. The northeastern Thailand, with 19 provinces, is where poor people mostly resided. Most of the poor people are in agrarian sector which absorbs a largest number of laborers. The economic boom in the 1980s and early 1990s has led to the improvement of infrastructure and made people in the rural areas better off, but rural people were still lagged behind those living in the metropolitans. The widening of the wealth gap lit up angers of the worst-offs.
Rural people see him as a hero. But when he was ousted by the military in 2006 bloodless coup, the middle-class was delighted because they were fed up with allegedly wide-spread corruption, absence of check and balance of power and press restriction under his administration.
"Former Prime Minister Thaksin is good at manipulating globalization for benefit of most people in the country", said Surichai Wankaew, a political science lecturer from Chulalongkorn University.
In fact, no one person is capable of healing the wounds of the nation when economic and social inequality persists and waits to be addressed.
The secretary-general of ASEAN Surin Pitsuwan said Thursday during ASEAN-EU meeting in Spain that Thailand badly needed political reform and social restructuring and the government had to introduce reforms that will bridge the gap in the social strata and bring justice to one and all.
"It is a lesson for all developing countries, not just Thailand, to learn how to manage social inequality," said Surin. "It is not about being democratic or undemocratic, but about effectiveness of social-management agencies."
"If the government can effectively solve people problems, they will eventually forget Thaksin. But the government's failure will only intensify their desire of his return. The government is tasked with responsibility to prove it is better than Thaksin's government," said Suriyasai Katasila acting secretary general of New Politics Party.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva vowed on May 21 to continue the reconciliation plan announced earlier this month that includes addressing economic disparity and constitutional amendment in an attempt to "rebuild the house".
The conflict has cost dearly for Thailand so far, but unless social disparity is narrowed, social conflict remains a demon waiting for its right time to come back.
Editor: Tang Danlu
Under Thaksin's administration, a range of populist policies were introduced to benefit the poor, such as the 30-baht (about 1 U.S. dollar) health care scheme, 1 sub-district 1 product and low- interest loan for villagers. Rural poverty was mitigated to some extent, although he is not the only one who should claim all the credit.
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Social disparity leads to conflict in Thailand
By Nutthathirataa Withitwinyuchon
BANGKOK, May 29 (Xinhua) -- The two-month melodrama of the anti- government protest led by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) ended abruptly on May 19, as the "red-shirts" core leaders surrendered themselves to the authorities following a day-long deadly clash between the troops and the protesters.
Disappointed protesters without leadership became rioters unfettered, setting ablaze in the following days Stock Exchange Building, Central World (the second largest shopping mall in South- East Asia), provincial halls, commercial banks, a television station, a movie theatre, telephone boosts and many other buildings.
The political turmoil, already under control according to the government, has left 88 people dead and 1,885 injured, including army forces and civilians, costing country's economy around 70 billion baht (2.12 billion U.S. dollars) and dividing country into two societies.
At the first glance, the anti-government protest, in addition to calling for democracy, seems to be an uprising of the poor demanding for the return of Thaksin, their hero, who was believed to be able to eliminate poverty and salvage them from distress. But in deeper look, it is more a confrontation of the main coalition Democrat party and social elites versus Thaksin and his supporters who wished to restore Thailand to the prior-coup condition. The genuine cause of the conflict lies deeper into the Thai society.
In Thailand, a man is classified by his occupation, level of education attainment and location of residence or work. The northeastern Thailand, with 19 provinces, is where poor people mostly resided. Most of the poor people are in agrarian sector which absorbs a largest number of laborers. The economic boom in the 1980s and early 1990s has led to the improvement of infrastructure and made people in the rural areas better off, but rural people were still lagged behind those living in the metropolitans. The widening of the wealth gap lit up angers of the worst-offs.
Rural people see him as a hero. But when he was ousted by the military in 2006 bloodless coup, the middle-class was delighted because they were fed up with allegedly wide-spread corruption, absence of check and balance of power and press restriction under his administration.
"Former Prime Minister Thaksin is good at manipulating globalization for benefit of most people in the country", said Surichai Wankaew, a political science lecturer from Chulalongkorn University.
In fact, no one person is capable of healing the wounds of the nation when economic and social inequality persists and waits to be addressed.
The secretary-general of ASEAN Surin Pitsuwan said Thursday during ASEAN-EU meeting in Spain that Thailand badly needed political reform and social restructuring and the government had to introduce reforms that will bridge the gap in the social strata and bring justice to one and all.
"It is a lesson for all developing countries, not just Thailand, to learn how to manage social inequality," said Surin. "It is not about being democratic or undemocratic, but about effectiveness of social-management agencies."
"If the government can effectively solve people problems, they will eventually forget Thaksin. But the government's failure will only intensify their desire of his return. The government is tasked with responsibility to prove it is better than Thaksin's government," said Suriyasai Katasila acting secretary general of New Politics Party.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva vowed on May 21 to continue the reconciliation plan announced earlier this month that includes addressing economic disparity and constitutional amendment in an attempt to "rebuild the house".
The conflict has cost dearly for Thailand so far, but unless social disparity is narrowed, social conflict remains a demon waiting for its right time to come back.
Editor: Tang Danlu
Under Thaksin's administration, a range of populist policies were introduced to benefit the poor, such as the 30-baht (about 1 U.S. dollar) health care scheme, 1 sub-district 1 product and low- interest loan for villagers. Rural poverty was mitigated to some extent, although he is not the only one who should claim all the credit.
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YouTube - In Their Own Words::::Red shirt protesters after the situation at Pathumwanaram temple
YouTube - Red shirt protesters after the situation at Pathumwanaram temple
Abhisit could say anything through the media directed by his gang members, but truth will remain there to emerge. Abhisit is nothing but a murderous illigitimate puppet leader in the Thai history.
Abhisit could say anything through the media directed by his gang members, but truth will remain there to emerge. Abhisit is nothing but a murderous illigitimate puppet leader in the Thai history.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Thailand: Giles Ji Ungpakorn -- `A full-blown military dictatorship'
Thailand: Giles Ji Ungpakorn -- `A full-blown military dictatorship' + interview | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Read more from the above link.
The junta’s success in clinging to power by murdering the people is merely success built on sand. They can kill hundreds and imprison thousands, but they will never win the hearts and minds on the people. Thailand will never be the same again.
Read more from the above link.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
YouTube - คนบาดเจ็บและเสียชีวิตในกรุงเทพฯโดย CNN May'14, 2010
YouTube - คนบาดเจ็บและเสียชีวิตในกรุงเทพฯโดย CNN May'14, 2010
Eventually, Dan Rivers of CNN reports the naked truth without any reservation.
Truth shall set you free, Dan. Thank you!
Eventually, Dan Rivers of CNN reports the naked truth without any reservation.
Truth shall set you free, Dan. Thank you!
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