Human Rights Watch today called for charges to be dropped against critics who were charged yesterday for violating the ban on criminal activity after being arrested on February for holding a mock election at the Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre on February 14th. The four will face the Bangkok Military Court in what HRW described as a ‘rolling crack down on civil and …
THE UNTHINKABLE! WHAT IF THE FOREIGN MEDIA HAVE GOT IT ALL WRONG?
For some days I have been reading here and there how the foreign media got it all wrong; that is the recent troubles in Bangkok. The journalists strongly disagree. The message they put across seemed to say that a bunch of elites and people who did not want Thaksin Shinawatra, or anybody with the same surname in power, wanted an …