<div><span id="E30" qowt-eid="E30">Note: </span><span id="E31" qowt-eid="E31">This piece was a response to the </span><a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/4773" id="E32" qowt-divtype="qowt-field-hyperlink" qowt-eid="E32" target="_blank"><span id="E33" qowt-eid="E33">10 February release</span></a><span id="E34" qowt-eid="E34"> and dismissal of charges against </span><span id="E36" qowt-eid="E36">Jaruwan</span><span id="E38" qowt-eid="E38">, Anon, and Chat</span><span id="E39" qowt-eid="E39">, three people accused of creating a Facebook book page with </span><span id="E41" qowt-eid="E41">l </span></div>

<p>Translator’s Note: The fable below was originally published in Thai on Prachatai in four parts in <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/journal/2014/10/55974">October</a>, <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/journal/2014/12/56904">December</a>, <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/journal/2015/01/57391">January</a>, and <a href="http://prachatai.org/journal/2015/02/57849">February</a>.</p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0b43c8fe-6c7c-bb72-37a9-df8cfe65773c">It was the artist Tran Luong and a red scarf. It does not take more to make the Vietnamese police raid the German cultural center in Hanoi. An interrupted installation in a space that is actually protected by diplomacy. I saw Tran Luong’s performance in full, uninterrupted, in Berlin, far away from the country he was from my interpretation commenting on by throwing a red scarf around, playing cheerfully with until the scarf tied his hands behind the back and he was unable to move.</span></p>

<p>In contemporary history, Thailand has experienced more military coups than any other country. But the one that took place in September 2006 when the Thai military staged a coup d'état against the elected government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, has divided people into two main groups; the yellow and red. Now in 2015, the country is under military rule again.</p>

<p><em>Translator’s Note</em>: The fable below was <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/journal/2015/01/57391">originally published in Thai</a> on Prachatai on 14 January 2015. The first part was published in October, in Thai <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/journal/2014/10/55974">here</a> and in English <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/4433">here</a> on Prachatai.</p>

<p><strong>Executive Summanry</strong></p>

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<p>The curtain is drawn. The year 2014 is coming to a close. In the past twelve months, Thailand has experienced some excitements as well as tragedies. This article revisits the year’s calendar and picks the ten most memorable events that have characterized 2014.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7529/15844421252_50ee099ab1_z.jpg" /></p>

<div>I am not your trained animal.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>I decided to write a record. With a perhaps unavoidable vulnerability, I write because I want to tell the outside world that each of us has a collar, although the lengths of our leashes vary. We become aware of the collars once we walk off the path mandated by those who force us to wear them.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Freedom … when we have lost it, then we feel its presence. </div>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b0a6c912-3369-0f93-5f84-da7effd65fc0" style="font-size: 12px;">On the date of 10 December 2014, let us be happy on the commemoration of auspicious Universal Human Rights Day and Constitution Day of Thailand. Shan’t I be happy, I ask myself. I should, but my feeling is so strong that despite these great occasions and the promise of Prayuth Chan O-cha, Prime Minister and Chief of National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to bring us happiness</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">, I am not happy.</span></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7566/15323682163_feba3da05d_z.jpg" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color:#ff8c00;">The South China Sea disputes which involve China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Philippines, Veitnam and Brunei.</span></em></p>