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Thailand: 2 years after the May 19 crackdown – some personal (and very short) thoughts

By Siam Voices Mon, May 21, 2012 1:37PM UTC View Comments

By Saksith Saiyasombut On Saturday, thousands of red shirts gathered at Ratchaprasong Intersection in Bangkok to commemorate the second anniversary of the violent crackdown against the anti-government protests on May 19, 2010 by the military. Ninety-one people have lost their lives and thousands were wounded in the clashes – protesters, soldiers, civilians and journalists (notably Fabio...

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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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On porn, jokes and Thai lawmakers

By Siam Voices Thu, Apr 19, 2012 11:40PM UTC View Comments

By Kaewmala Thai lawmakers made world headlines this week. It wasn’t exactly the kind of international press that would make them or Thailand proud. A BBC world headline on April 18, 2012 read “Image of naked woman halts Thai parliament debate.” At home, the Bangkok Post published the image of a half-naked woman captured on the...

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Thailand: One thousand Red Villages open in Isaan

By Siam Voices Thu, Feb 23, 2012 8:36AM UTC View Comments

Representatives from the Federation of Red Villages hand out signs for newly inaugurated Red Villages for Democracy.

By The Isaan Record UDON THANI – From a stage outside Udon Thani’s Provincial Hall, the Red Village movement grew rapidly Sunday evening as it welcomed 1,000 new Isaan villages as official Red Villages for Democracy. The Federation of Red Villages, a branch of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, now boasts a total...

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Thailand: Red village thwarted, a community divided

By Siam Voices Wed, Jan 11, 2012 9:01AM UTC View Comments

KHON KAEN – In Non Reuang, an unassuming Northeastern village located just 15 kilometers north of Khon Kaen city, fallow rice fields line pothole-ridden roads made dusty with windswept topsoil. Here, most residents are looking to have those roads repaved. Others are interested in having the local elementary school’s bathrooms renovated. These are the daily...

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