Pro-democracy activists rally in Bangkok as election faces delay
Human rights activists protest possible postponement of Thai election. ...
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Rap Against Dictatorship
“Polarizing the people is the authoritarian’s ultimate weapon. When this happens, the people’s power will be take away.” Rap Against Dictatorship Artist : – Lady Thanom – Gentle Pr ...
Thailand faces another coup d’etat if military hates election outcome
Thailand’s Chief of Defence Forces Pornpipat Benyasri has defended the army chief, who said he would not rule out another military coup, saying this would only be proposed as a final option to deal with politic ...
Forget Genuine, Rights-Respecting Democracy
Thailand. General Prayuth Chan-Ocha, who seized power in a coup in May 2014, said in August that the election should take place on February 24. Previous time-lines for a poll were repeatedly pushed back. Human Rights ...
I am a politician who used to be a soldier
The head of Thailand’s military government declared Monday he is “interested†in participating in politics, in a new indication he may seek to remain in office after elections scheduled for early n ...
An Election Without Fundamental Rights
It has been four years since the ruling Pheu Thai party was removed from power in Thailand in a military coup. Four years of flip-flops, of abrupt reversals of decisions, and of broken promises. Four years of propaga ...
Thailand’s 2014 Coup and Call for Democracy
Rome Ramsignam from Thailand’s Democracy Restoration Group (DRG) talks to Peoples Dispatch about the current political scenario in the country and the people’s movement for elections and democracy. ...
We Remember Moments
I remember a time when society reacted with shock and anger. The Thai coup of 2014 had provoked public resistance to the military takeover. Pro-democracy demonstrators peacefully gathered on May 24, 2014 at Victory M ...
Once upon a time when people wanted an election
Remembering a time when Thais demanded for the right to vote in a free election. What happened. On February 2, 2014, the world watched Thailand’s general election unfold within a tenuous political environme ...
Unhappiness in Between Smiles
Anti-junta protesters march against military rule on the second anniversary of Thailand’s military coup. ...
Aung San Suu Kyi (Video) – AK Rockefeller
Music by AK Rockefeller / Video by Humphrey King: Less than two years on from a sham general election designed to entrench the rule of the military and its proxies, unprecedentedly free polling has returned a landsli ...
We Are A Nation Of Free Indigenous Nations
This Constitution produced a State that killed 15 000 Bougainvilleans, Destroyed the Fly River and is creating suffering amongst the Watut and Labu people of Morobe. Why defend a Constitution that has for 36 years FA ...
Occupy Wall Street – Official Demands
LIST OF PROPOSED "DEMANDS FOR CONGRESS" proposed by occupywallstreet.org. Vote to participate in selecting which demands are adopted. ...
