Protests update

Well playmates time for an update on the protests in Bangkok. The worst thing you can do apparently is visit Subway especially if your reading a book called 1984. You will get arrested.

A friend reckons the democracy protesters have got the wrong Orwell book. It should not be 1984 but Animal Farm. "Red Shirt corruption bad, Yellow Shirt corruption better". If your a reader Im sure you know what that all means.

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How Thailand’s Junta Abuses Its Critics
One junta critic on the treatment he and his family are receiving under the ruling junta.
By Pavin Chachavalpongpun
February 25, 2016
On February 24, just a few hours before my lecture at Oxford University began, I received a message from my sister who lives in Bangkok requesting me to contact her urgently. Upon contacting her, she informed me in a distressed voice that the military had sent four officers to my house in Bangkok.

As someone who has been outspoken on the sensitive issue of the future..... (read more)..... http://thediplomat.com/2016/02/how-t...s-its-critics/

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Chavalit tells NCPO to relinquish power, hold elections in 2016 Published: 25/02/2016
Former prime minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh on Thursday told the National Council for Peace and Order that its time was over and it should hand power to a neutral body to hold elections this year and restore... (read more).... http://m.bangkokpost.com/news/876612...kokpost.com%2F

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25 February 2016
Amnesty’s Rights Report Lacks Balance, Context: Govt
By Teeranai Charuvastra
Staff Reporter

BANGKOK — The military government said today Amnesty International ignored Thailand’s political context in its harsh verdict on the human rights situation in the junta-ruled kingdom.

Responding to the NGO’s annual report on global rights situation, which called out junta’s continued suppression of critics..... (read more)..... http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail...te=06&section=

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Thailand: Lèse-majesté detentions have reached alarming levels, new report says
26/02/2016
AFP
(Paris) Lèse-majesté detentions have reached alarming levels after the 22 May 2014 military coup in Thailand, FIDH and UCL said in a new report published today.

The report, titled “36 and counting - Lèse-majesté imprisonment under Thailand’s military junta”, raises serious concerns over the pattern of violations of the right to liberty, the right to a fair trial, and the right to freedom of opinion and expression stemming from prosecutions under Article 112 of the Criminal Code (lèse-majesté). These violations are in breach of Thailand’s obligations under key international human rights instruments..... (read more)... https://www.fidh.org/en/region/asia/...ing-levels-new

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Exiled academic Somsak may face more lèse majesté charges
Submitted by editor1 on Fri, 26/02/2016
The Thai police are considering a further lèse majesté charge against Somsak Jeamteerasakul, in self-imposed exile in France, and the Thai PBS channel over a talk programme on the lèse majesté law.....(read more)... http://prachatai.org/english/node/5888

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Unfolding and unscrambling the Thai military junta’s policy advertorial
by Saksith Saiyasombut | 26th February 2016
THAILAND’S military government has gone on the media offensive to promote its “reform roadmap” by planting paid advertisement supplements in Thai newspapers. But the published product is, in its own words, one giant “confusion trap”..... (read more)..... https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/...y-advertorial/

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February 25, 2016 10:30 am JST
Tim Johnston
Thai elite must bridge the political divide while it still can
As the twilight deepens on the almost 70-year reign of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej amid reports of his deteriorating health, the contradictions inherent in this modern, middle-class country ruled by a traditionalist elite are becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile..... (read more)..... http://asia.nikkei.com/Viewpoints/Vi...ill-can?page=1

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27 February 2016
No More Heroes: Democracy Fails if We Watch From the Sidelines
By Pravit Rojanaphruk

A Thammasat University lecturer told me Wednesday that democracy activist leader Sombat Boonngam-anong has been too quiet since he was arrested in 2014 for calling for a failed effort to overthrow the coup makers.

But what more should we expect from an individual – Sombat or anyone – in carrying the flickering torch of democracy and human rights with a paranoid military... (read more).... http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail...621&section=12

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Thailand's Thaksin Talks, But Will He Act?
The ex-premier’s decision to break his self-imposed silence raises some interesting questions.
By Shawn W. Crispin
February 27, 2016
In a flurry of foreign media interviews, former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra broke his self-imposed silence to criticize the ruling military junta’s draft constitution and democratic roadmap, claiming coup-maker and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha’s election timetable is a “charade” designed to prolong his stay in power power.

The media blitz also coincides with rising government pressure on the exiled former leader’s family’s interests, signaling the delicate rapprochement that has underpinned a near two year period of stability may be coming undone.

Thaksin’s critical comments were his most extensive....(read more)... http://thediplomat.com/2016/02/thail...t-will-he-act/