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		<title>Ban&#8217;s visit a watershed moment</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/07/11/bans-visit-a-watershed-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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Political analysts and international journalists have criticized the visit of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Burma last week. Various observers have described it as ill-advised and fruitless. Some have remarked that Ban risked his reputation to achieve nothing.
What was striking about his visit was the level of negativity that accompanied it from the moment it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1223&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Torture still a dirty secret in Thailand</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/06/27/torture-still-a-dirty-secret-in-thailand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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(การทรมานยังเป็นความลับที่สกปรกในเมืองไทย)
A little over a week ago, the Bangkok Post reported that a special inquiry unit under Thailand’s Justice Ministry had asked the public prosecutor to lodge charges against six police officers for allegedly torturing a man in their custody.
The police in Ayutthaya, near Bangkok, hooded Ekkawat Srimanta and beat him all over his body to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1210&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Politics, not law, will determine Suu Kyi&#8217;s fate</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/06/22/politics-not-law-will-determine-suu-kyis-fate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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At a meeting of lawyers in Hong Kong this April, Aitzaz Ahsan described how as counsel for the Chief Justice of Pakistan in the petition against his unconstitutional removal from office during 2007, neither the president nor any other senior official had even read the charges brought against the judge, which they had signed. Had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1203&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Questions, not dismay, over Tak Bai findings</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/06/12/questions-not-dismay-over-tak-bai-findings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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It took five years for a court in Songkhla, southern Thailand, to hold an inquest into the deaths of 78 men after they were detained along with over 1,000 others outside the Tak Bai police station in October 2004. But for all the time spent and witnesses heard, the findings handed down on May 29 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1189&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thailand&#8217;s anti-human rights commission</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/05/14/thailands-anti-human-rights-commission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 07:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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Despite concerns from human rights defenders at home and abroad, Thailand’s upper house on May 1 approved the seven nominees for the country’s National Human Rights Commission. The seven consist of a top cop, a judicial administrator, a civil servant, an industrialist, an academic, a former senator and a road safety advocate.
Only the ex-senator and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1183&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thailand&#8217;s new rights commission is a joke</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/05/01/thailands-new-rights-commission-is-a-joke/</link>
		<comments>http://ratchasima.net/2009/05/01/thailands-new-rights-commission-is-a-joke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 10:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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(คณะกรรมการสิทธิมนุษยชน ชุดใหม่ ของประเทศไทย เป็นเรื่องตลก)
This week the Asian Human Rights Commission issued three open letters on the selection of candidates for the new National Human Rights Commission of Thailand. The regional body has warned that if the Senate goes ahead and accepts the seven current nominees then the commission may cease to meet international standards, causing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1120&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Double legal standards jeopardize Thailand</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/04/24/double-legal-standards-jeopardize-thailand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a meeting of lawyers and jurists in Hong Kong this week a participant from Thailand identified the key issue for her country&#8217;s legal system as political control of the judiciary. Her statement was remarkable not because it revealed something that other participants didn&#8217;t already know, but because not long ago few professionals from Thailand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1108&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The first casualty</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/04/16/the-first-casualty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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As troops and antigovernment protestors clashed on Bangkok’s streets again this week, a furious battle also played out in the media over casualties. Government spokespersons and army officers insisted that bullets had not been fired into the crowds. Their opponents said the opposite.
Soldiers had at times pointed their weapons at people, and some of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1099&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visit to UNDP ends in prison</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/04/03/visit-to-undp-ends-in-prison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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Among the many people in Rangoon’s central jail who shouldn’t be there are a couple of journalists. These two did not write or say anything against the government. They didn’t do anything that constituted a threat to the army or its hold on power. Yet they were imprisoned on a charge of inciting others to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1088&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cyber-thought crime in Bangkok and Rangoon</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/03/21/cyber-thought-crime-in-bangkok-and-rangoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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A court in Rangoon on March 5 sentenced three men who didn’t know each other to a decade’s imprisonment for a crime that they never committed – or rather, for a crime so nebulous that if any of them had ever used a computer he wouldn’t know if he had committed it or not.
The three, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1077&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five years&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/03/10/five-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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Somchai Neelaphaijit. Still missing, still no one punished: March 12, 2004
We will not forget.
DOWNLOAD NEW BOOK: Reading between the lines, by Angkhana Neelaphaijit (Thai version available here)
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		<title>Rights envoy takes new approach on Burma</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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A week or so from now the representative of the United Nations to Burma on human rights will present his annual report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. It should make interesting reading.
[Update, March 17: Advance copy of report available here]
The report follows Tomas Ojea Quintana’s second visit to the country since he came [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1050&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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