<div> <div> <div>Academics have condemned a school in the Northeastern Province of Khon Kaen for requiring kindergarten children to wear military uniforms, saying that it reinforces authoritarianism. A parent pitied her daughter wearing such uniform despite the hot weather of Thailand. </div></div></div>

<div> <div>For four years, children in a kindergarten in the northeastern province of Khon Kaen have been ordered to wear military uniforms once a week. </div></div>

<div>A fundraiser in the northeastern province of Khon Kaen has been arrested as the first victim of the Referendum Act, only eight hours after a complaint was filed against her.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On Wednesday, 27 April 2016, Khaosod reported that Jiraphan Tanmani, President of the Rathawatanamani Fund -- an organization raising funds to promote autism rights -- was arrested for publishing content that was severe, aggressive and rude with the intention of persuading the public to accept or not accept the draft charter in the August referendum.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>She was </div>

<div> <p dir="ltr"><em><strong>Update</strong>: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BBCThai/photos/a.1527194487501586.1073741828.1526071940947174/1766721413548891/?type=3&amp;theater">The BBC Thai reported </a>that the military have abducted five persons, including Harit Mahaton and Nithi Kooltasnasilp in total on Wednesday morning. The name of another detainee among the five is Supachai Saibutr, 30. According to Supachai’s father, soldiers arrested him from his house at 5:30 am in Bangkok, citing national security. The father added that Supachai was taken to the 11th Military Circle in Bangkok.</em></p> </div>

<p>An environmental conservation group in Isan, Thailand’s Northeast, says that the Thai junta are siding with an oil and gas corporation to plunder resources and urges the US government to take action against the multinational petroleum company.</p>

<p>An environment conservation group in Isan, Northern Thailand, has requested the court to halt petroleum drilling. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>About 30 village activists opposing drilling in a potential petroleum field called Dongmoon located in Kranuan District of the northeastern province of Khon Kaen at the border with Kalasin Province on Tuesday, 6 October 2015, requested Khon Kaen Provincial Administrative Court to hold an emergency hearing to halt the drilling operation.</p>

<p>KHON KAEN – In the Northeast, most people were always doubtful. They laughed at the&nbsp;<a href="http://isaanrecord.com/2014/09/28/reconciliation-trainings-target-northeastern-villages/">reconciliation trainings</a>&nbsp;that came to their villages. They mocked a&nbsp;<a href="http://isaanrecord.com/2015/03/29/public-forums-on-the-constitution-drafting-hit-the-northeast/">constitution drafting process</a>&nbsp;that purported to include their voices. Very few here believed that the military had any intention of swiftly returning Thailand to a democracy.</p>

<p>The police in southern Thailand have questioned a freelance journalist about his political opinions and asked whether he is linked to anti-junta student activists in Thailand’s northeast and Deep South insurgent groups.</p> <p>On Wednesday afternoon, Pol Lt Col Parinya Hemachukiatkun, the Chief Inspector of the Special Branch Police of the southern province of Trang, came to inspect the house of Pratyakiat Waro, an independent journalist, while he was not home.</p>

<p>An environmental protection group in Isan, Thailand’s northeast, has issued a statement to urge state agencies to come up with measures to protect the local environmental from gas drilling activities.</p>

<p>Seven student activists in Thailand’s Northeast, Isan Region, refused to appear at a police station on Monday while activist groups from many regions of the nation marched to show their moral support.</p> <p>On 8 June, seven student activists of Dao Din, a student activist group based in Khon Kaen University who were summoned by the police, refused to report to the police in the northeastern province of Khon Kaen.</p> <p>They hoped that their ‘civil resistance movement’ could inspire other activists and people to show solidarity against the military regime.</p>

<p>Thai military have summoned a village chief in Thailand’s northeast to a military base over a banner protesting against the junta’s draft constitution at an administrative meeting.</p> <p>According to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bangkokbiznews.com/news/detail/649878">Krungthepturakij News</a>, military personnel from the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) of the northeastern province of Khon Kaen and police officers stormed into a provincial public administration meeting in Mueang District of Khon Kaen province at around 11 am on Tuesday.</p>

<p>The Thai authorities in northeastern Thailand have refused to meet villagers protesting against a plan to survey land ownership around a national park. &nbsp;</p>