By Prachatai |
A Red Shirt protester has been released after being acquitted in all five cases related to explosives during the 2014 Yellow Shirt protests.
By Prachatai |
A Red Shirt protester has been acquitted in a case related to an explosion at a 2014 Yellow Shirt protest. He faced five charges related to explosives in 2014, and has now been acquitted on three.
By Prachatai |
When discussing nationalism in the Thai context, most people will think of conservative movements like the Yellow Shirts and other ultra-royalist groups, but what about the new Thai nationalism among the younger generation where the concept of “Nation” is more fluid?
By Prachatai |
The court has dropped all charges against another 67 anti-government protesters who were involved in a shutdown of Bangkok’s two main airports in 2008, citing that the protest was considered a peaceful assembly.
By Prachatai |
<p>All government agencies have been told to organize ceremonies for His Majesty the King’s 68th birthday while everyone is urged to wear yellow in July.</p>
By Atipong Pathanasethpong and John Draper |
<p>A post-Yingluck Shinawatra Thailand is not a reconciled Thailand, and nor will it be if her Pheu Thai Party ceases to exist.</p>
<p>The political arena will remain as polarised as it has been for the past decade. Yet this predicament can be overcome through a strategy laid out in the well-known Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Longzhong Plan. The plan was to divide China into three realms of roughly equal power. Adapting that plan can lead to positive change that will help move Thailand out of the current deadlock.</p>
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<div>A group of people dressed in yellow shirts have filed an accusation with the Administrative Court against agencies allied to the junta -- the PM, cabinet, charter drafters, lawmakers, and Election Commission -- for risking Thailand’s territory under the draft constitution, adding that the referendum should be postponed until the problematic articles are fixed.
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<p><a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1434540807&section=11">Khaosod English</a>: Politicians from Thailand's two rival political camps have been asked by the military junta to attend a forum on its national reform efforts this Friday. </p>
<div>After the Bangkok Remand Prison attempted to separate red-shirt political prisoners from each other by sending them to several different prison zones, which was followed by the alleged beating to death of a red shirt by yellow-shirt inmates, a group of human rights lawyers has urged the prison to change its policy for the safety of political prisoners.</div>
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<div>Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) on Thursday submitted a letter to the Bangkok Remand Prison director asking the prison to review its assignment policy.
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By Nidhi Eoseewong |
<p>Regarding political conflict in Thailand, many years ago I proposed that the political system (relations of power) is unable to adapt and broaden itself to accept the expansion of a new group of people who I referred to as the lower middle-class. This group of people is vast and needs a space to politically negotiate within the system, because their lives, their worldviews, and their interests have changed. </p>
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By Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation |
<p>Most red shirts still oppose congress headed by Prawase and Anand despite claim of 'transcending political divide'<br />
The three-day National Reform Congress concluded yesterday with its chairman Prawase Wasi boasting that the meeting, which drew some 2,000 participants, "transcended" political division and "united" people from all walks.</p>
<p>Praphan Khoonmee has told the yellow shirts that he will accept any means to let good people govern the country, saying that it is their right to have a better political system. </p>