The Rot We Lovingly Nurture
Every time I wander the back lanes of a sprawling city, wade on the sandy shore near the wooden jetty of a fishermen’s village, or move in random sequence through an intimidating palm oil plantation, I am reminded ...
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ThaiSouth: Ownership at its Height of Hypocrisy
The Barisan Revolusi National (BRN) will continue the carnage in the ThaiSouth until their demands are met by the “Siam” (Thailand) government. BRN, has lost much of its influence in the three Thai provinces of N ...
Building Peace in South Thailand
On Feb 28, 2013, the government of Thailand signed an agreement with the insurgent group Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) in Kuala Lumpur, which was witnessed by senior members of Malaysia’s government. The agreemen ...
Street art on the riverbank near Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur
It was interesting to see that Kuala Lumpur authorities allowed street artists to express their craft on the riverbank near Petaling Street. Graffiti is art, most commonly looked down upon by society as acts of rebel ...
Missing Lao Activist Sombath – More Questions than Answers
On 15 December 2012, Sombath Somphone, a civil rights activist, disappeared in Vietiane, Lao. Sombath Somphone had a high profile at the Asian-Europe People’s Forum. His work, safeguarding the environment and ensur ...
Rights of Marginalized Children in Thailand
Poverty has its roots firmly placed in many parts of ASEAN member nations, and Thailand is no exception. Child poverty, whether urban or rural, have caused a displacement of strategies and misguided interventions. Th ...
Body Count: Children Killed in Thailand’s South
In October this year, an 11-year old boy was killed along with his father when militants shot at them. They were in a pickup truck, driving in Thailand’s province, Yala. This is not the first assault on childre ...
International Criminal Court, Justice and Inaction
Is Justice hidden within the walls of the International Criminal Court? Or perhaps still firmly wrapped in the mysteries of the laws of ICC? I wonder with some annoying frustration, as I write this, how screwed the e ...
Inevitable Destiny of the Bastard Child of Civilization
AK Rockefeller, reduces the fear of being alone, produces a vigor of solidarity, particularly when one faces the shadow of the approaching might of the Institution. We discard the veils, we stand tall or crouch in p ...
Right-Wing Ideology – An Addictive Degeneration of Rights
To many Thais living outside of the metropolis, the blazed elitist campaign proves to be a haunting prospect, the gnawing fear of returning to a time of unrest during the Coup of 2006. While as the urban poor communi ...
Sunset at Khlong Wat Dan Slum
Bangkok, the pride and joy of modern Thailand, a city filled with glory, history, revolution and bloodshed. Times have changed, governments and military coups have appeared and imploded, this horrid legacy of a growi ...
Howling of the Damned, the Homeless
The exquisite night sky provides no comfort for those living without a home. The cold, brutal rain wrecks havoc to those without shelter, pounding against their broken bodies. ...
Peeling the Crowded Thoughts of Narathiwat
The presence of the military in the south is visible the moment a traveler steps out of the airplane. The small airport has a short landing strip and AirAsia is the only flight available in and out of the province, b ...
South Thailand: The Words of Resistance, Lost in the Carnage
Untamed, the devastating savagery. Another forgotten murderous campaign. A broken South Thailand – Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala. ...
Bangkok, a city of contradiction, a realm of loss and life
Bangkok, many say, procreates menace at dusk, and the abomination of insecurity comes about, creeping forth, seeking what it cannot grasp during the day. Yet I am moved by the night, this perilousness, this expos ...
Poverty is the cruel yoke of oppression.
Poverty. A terrible solitude. Ostracism from sanity. Plenty beyond the horizon, you will find at every corner of a mega city and town, to the paddy fields and palm oil plantations. Poverty is a negation of free will ...
The Constitution verses Our Lives
A constitutional court is a high court that deals primarily with constitutional law. Its main authority is to rule on whether or not laws that are challenged are in fact unconstitutional, for example whether or not t ...
Towards Democracy: Thais Rebuilding Thailand
Bangkok, I am back in the metropolis of 12 million people. Someone had mentioned that the population could easily reach as high as 14 million with the daily migration of people from other provinces and migrant worker ...
Indonesia’s Campaign of Terror and Agony Against PAPUA
The Indonesia military (TNI) along with the police have repeatedly violated and demonized the Papuans, in their quest to enslave the indigenous people. This is genocide. Such hypocrisy of the human rights image that ...
