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Bomb in Southern Thailand kills three policemen
By Asian Correspondent Staff | 24th September 2016 | @ascorrespondent
THREE police officers were killed on Friday when a homemade bomb placed by the roadside exploded in insurgency-plagued southern Thailand.
Police in Yala province said the bomb was detonated as the officers’ car passed over it, wrecking the vehicle and killing the three instantly....(read more)... https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/...ree-policemen/
I appreciate the information that Up2U posts. Those of us who have boyfriends living in Thailand under this regime need to understand what is affecting their daily lives.
Ex-Thai PM Yingluck Should Pay $1 Billion Fine, Committee Says
Supunnabul Suwannakij
September 25, 2016
Yingluck faces penalty for 2012-2013 rice-purchase programs
Fine amounts to about 20% of program’s costs to government
Former Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose government was ousted in a military coup in 2014, should be fined about 35 billion baht ($1 billion) for overseeing a program to buy rice from farmers above market rates, a state-appointed committee recommended.... (read more).... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...itter-business
THORN IN THE PILLAR: FRESHMAN MAKES ENEMIES UPSETTING TRADITION. ALLIES TOO.
By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter - September 25, 2016
BANGKOK — Every year freshmen in crisp uniforms press together on the campus of Chulalongkorn University. As one, thousands lower their heads to the ground in respect to statues of kings Rama V and VI in a swearing-in ceremony treated as a sacred ritual.
Except this year.... (read more)... http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politi...dition-allies/
Sep. 25, 2016
Probe your own brother, ousted Thai PM tells junta chief
BANGKOK: Thailand's first female prime minister Sunday told the man who ousted her government two years ago to investigate his own brother over corruption allegations, in an unusually strong broadside against the junta.
Yingluck Shinawatra was booted from office shortly before army chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha seized power in May 2014, the military's second coup in less than a decade and their twelfth successful power grab since 1932.... (read more)... https://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Wo...nta-chief.ashx
Fate of bill against enforced disappearance under military
Submitted by editor2 on Mon, 26/09/2016
Since 1991, 101 Thai citizens have been subjected to enforced disappearance. This has motivated a drive to draft a law against enforced disappearance to make accountable state officials and their supervisors if they are aware of the offence, to prohibit defamation prosecutions against complainants and to ensure that every minute is counted. Academics are concerned that the bill will be dropped or distorted and noted that Article 44 of the Interim Constitution alone can override any law against enforced disappearance because of its supra-constitutional power.... (read more)...http://prachatai.org/english/node/6592
SECURITY FORCES MUZZLE TORTURE DISCUSSION WITH ARREST THREATS
By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter - September 28, 2016
BANGKOK — When representatives of Amnesty International gathered at a Bangkok hotel Wednesday morning to talk about the military regime’s use of torture, plainclothes security forces told them they would be arrested if they so much as opened their mouths.... (read more)... http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2...rrest-threats/
The report... https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents.../4746/2016/en/
Embattled human rights lawyer accused of sedition
Submitted by editor2 on Wed, 28/09/2016
The police have accused an embattled human rights lawyer of sedition and violation of the junta’s political gathering ban, for observing a pro-democracy protest.... (read more)... http://prachatai.org/english/node/6601
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