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Re: Protests update
Junta threatens Pheu Thai for denouncing the draft charter
Submitted by editor4 on Thu, 31/03/2016
In an attempt to censor voices against the draft constitution, the junta threatened Pheu Thai Party after the party issued a statement, denouncing that the draft is undemocratic.
On Wednesday, 30 March 2016, Pheu Thai Party has issued a statement condemning the final charter draft and persuading people to turn it down in the referendum, scheduled in August.
In response to Phue Thai’s move, Col Piyapong Klinphan, the junta’s spokesperson, said the junta thanks Pheu Thai for having a clear stance on the draft, but the junta will check if the statement misleads the public. If so, the junta might ‘invite’ Pheu Thai members for a talk, Thai News Agency reported.... (read more)... http://prachatai.org/english/node/59...edium=facebook
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Pheu Thai call to reject charter 'OK'
Published: 31/03/2016
Election commissioner Somchai Srisuthiyakorn said Thursday Pheu Thai's statement urging people to reject the draft constitution does not violate the referendum bill since opinions were backed by reasons....(read more)...
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Alice in Juntaland and autocracy in Thailand
BY JAMES L TAYLOR, GUEST CONTRIBUTOR – 1 APRIL 2016
POSTED IN: THAILAND
Readers may have heard about a woman arrested and charged with sedition for holding a red bowl with Thaksin’s message on it for 2016 Songkran Day.
It gets worse in Thailand by the minute as the country is now under full military dictatorship and a chilling sign of things to come.... (read more)... http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newman...y-in-thailand/
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Pravit Rojanaphruk
2016th April 01
Charter Draft Second Look: Full Education No Longer Guaranteed (Analysis).
Senior Staff Writer BANGKOK - Digging deeper Into the Draft Charter's recently Released finds 279 articles caveats Applied to Basic Civil rights, Education funding that Falls Three years short of completing Secondary school and obstacles to amending the Constitution... (read more).... http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail...361§ion=11
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Editorial Opinion
Affront to justice system
Published: 01/04/2016
The military regime's order giving soldiers the power to summon, arrest and detain people suspected of being involved in illegal activities without oversight from the court is an affront to the justice system that will inflict serious and long-term damage to the country....(read more)...
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The politics of Thai Buddhism
Men-at-alms
A squabble in the clergy widens Thailand’s dangerous divides
Apr 2nd 2016 | PATHUM THANI |
JUST north of Bangkok, the Thai capital, stands an enormous golden stupa designed to last 1,000 years. Its gleaming exterior is made not from smooth tiles but from 300,000 tightly-packed statues of the Buddha; 700,000 more are hidden inside. Just as staggering is the vast apron surrounding the stupa, able to hold 1m worshippers. Worakate, a guide dressed in white, explains that followers of the Theravada school of Buddhism—dominant in Thailand and elsewhere in South-East Asia—have never had a gathering place as large as Mecca or the Vatican. She thinks the monument can be a meeting point for adherents from around the world.... (read more).... http://www.economist.com/news/asia/2...vides-men-alms
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Am I seeing this correctly? Thailand is basically China's new slave labor camp?
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Re: Protests update
02 April 2016
Junta’s ‘Polite’ Repression
By Pravit Rojanaphruk
Senior Staff Writer
When the phone rang shortly after 9am on Wednesday it was a junta rep on the other end. He was polite as usual.
“Brother, the commanders think your trip should be deferred,” the soft-spoken Lt. Col. Adisak Showichien informed me. It was about my scheduled trip to Helsinki to attend the World Press Freedom Day organized by UNESCO at the invitation of the Finnish foreign ministry.... (read more)... http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail...te=06§ion=
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Too gentle on the junta?
April 2, 2016
We would imagine that every reader at PPT knows of the commentaries by Thitinan Pongsudhirak, an associate professor and director of the Institute of Security and International Studies, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. He’s a prolific commentator and, unlike so many of his faculty colleagues, he’s actually published some reasonable papers in some acceptable academic journals.
His recent commentary on the Bangkok Post on the military’s draft charter and the junta’s referendum deserves some attention. There’s some good stuff in it, but considerable wishful thinking based on too little attention to history.... (read more)... https://thaipoliticalprisoners.wordp...-on-the-junta/
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Re: Protests update
Military confiscates red bowls from Pheu Thai offices
Submitted by editor2 on Sat, 02/04/2016
Military and police officers searched the offices of Pheu Thai party politicians in northern Thailand and confiscated the red bowls inscribed with Thai new year greetings from former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.... (read more)... http://prachatai.org/english/node/6001