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Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinatwatra (center) and army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha (right). (Picture via Flickr, licensed under CC)

Analysis: Is Thailand’s military compromising for the sake of reconciliation?

By Siam Voices Fri, May 18, 2012 10:00AM UTC View Comments

By Saksith Saiyasombut The East Asia Forum recently published a column on the current political role of Thailand’s military written by John Blaxland, Senior Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University with 30 years of service experience with the Australian Military and also a graduate of the Royal Thai Army Command and Staff...

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Payap University presentation today on Thailand’s red shirts, the ‘urbanized villagers’

By Siam Voices Wed, May 16, 2012 9:30AM UTC View Comments

Members of the 'Red Shirt Villages' attend a meeting near Khon Kaen, Thailand on July 2, 2011 (Photo by Saksith Saiyasombut/IHA)

By Saksith Saiyasombut Today at Payap University in Chiang Mai a good friend and a fellow student of mine will give a presentation about his ethnographic research on the red shirts. Here’s the blurb and their Facebook event page: The Red Shirt Movement: Urbanized Villagers, Class War and Thaksin, the Democratic Gladiator Wednesday, 16 May 2012, 5pm...

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Thammasat University split as it debates for and against Nitirat

By Siam Voices Fri, Feb 03, 2012 10:00AM UTC View Comments

Former and current journalism students rally at Thammasat University against proposals of the Nitirat's group to reform the constitution and the lèse majesté law. (Source: Facebook)

By Saksith Saiyasombut The debates over the Nitirat group’s proposals to amend the constitution and the lèse majesté law have become considerably heated and in parts downright ugly over the past weeks. Thammasat University became the venue and the center of controversy as most of the lectures of the group (consisting of 7 Thammasat law lectures)...

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WATCH: ‘Challenging the Sovereign Narrative’ – (Social) Media in the Thai Political Crisis

By Siam Voices Fri, Dec 23, 2011 11:30AM UTC View Comments

By Saksith Saiyasombut (Note: This post was supposed to be up much, much earlier but was pushed back due to the floods and the re-relocation of the author back to Germany. Apologies to all involved for the momentous delay!) Back in late September I was invited to hold a talk at Payap University in Chiang...

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‘Justice Delayed, Justice Denied’ – A public seminar on last year’s violence and what has (not) happened since

By Siam Voices Mon, Jun 27, 2011 9:30AM UTC View Comments

By Saksith Saiyasombut, in Bangkok A public seminar has criticized the government that little to nothing has happened in the official investigations of the deaths during the red shirt protests of April and May 2010. The event, organized by the People’s Information Center: April – May 2010 (PIC) was held at Thammasat University on Saturday and consisted...

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