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Khong-Chi-Mun student group in Isaan urges an end to violence

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021

The newly-established Khong-Chi-Mun student group in Isaan urges an end to violence

Culture

Remembrances of Red Trauma (21) – Hakom

June 7, 2020August 17, 2020

A village in northeastern Thailand is terrorized by a powerful ghost and descends into chaos as two factions fight over how to exorcise the demon. A short story by Charuphat Petcharavej that can be read as a parable of the country’s political conflict.

Interviews

Remembrances of Red Trauma (20) – A fire burning down below

June 6, 2020June 9, 2020

“There has never been a time, no other era, where the ordinary villager has cursed the ruling class so much as now. There’s a fire burning down below and the military coup has only poured fuel onto that fire.” Teerapol Anmai speaks about the aftermath of the 2010 protests and the state’s violent response.

Features

Remembrances of Red Trauma (14) – Burning for democracy

May 28, 2020June 20, 2020

He was a Red Shirt teenager. In May 2010, he threw a molotov cocktail, contributing to the burning down the Udon Thani provincial hall. He served six years for his crime. Though disappointed with the movement, he still believes democracy is worth fighting for.

Interviews

Remembrances of Red Trauma (11) – A war of words: ‘red buffaloes’

May 22, 2020June 20, 2020

Linguist Saowanee T. Alexander talks about the evolution of the term “red buffaloes” that had been used pejoratively to describe Red Shirts and supporters of the Pheu Thai Party. But in recent years, pro-democracy activists have reclaimed the slur, partly shifting its derogatory usage.

Features

Remembrances of Red Trauma (8) – Not all cages exist behind bars: A political prisoner’s life after release

May 14, 2020June 9, 2020

Somsak Prasansap is one of many who say they were wrongfully convicted for the burning of provincial halls in Isaan in May 2010. Since his release, the 59-year-old is struggling to stitch his life back together.

Features

Remembrances of Red Trauma (7) – Letters from political prisoners

May 10, 2020June 9, 2020

For over nine years Teerapon Anmai and his academic friends who set up a fund to help the families of political prisoners have been receiving letters from prisoners detailing their hardships and sharing their thoughts.

Features

Remembrances of Red Trauma (6) – No port in a storm: a political prisoner’s life

May 8, 2020May 8, 2020

What happened to those persecuted for the burnings of provincial halls in Isaan in May 2010? We talked to Somsak Prasansap whose life fell apart after he was arrested and charged with arson of the Udon Thani provincial hall.

Opinion

Remembrances of Red Trauma (5) – Recollections of a reporter : Bloody April – May 2010

May 6, 2020June 9, 2020

“I can still remember that heavy smell of blood wafting through the air, as the dead bodies of the protesters were being piled together up on the UDD stage, together with the weapons they managed to prise from the hands of soldiers. I can’t forget it,” writes a news reporter who covered the bloody events of April-May 2010.

Interviews

40 years on – Northeasterners remember a Bangkok massacre

October 7, 2016August 16, 2017

On the 40th anniversary of the massacre at Thammasat University on October 6, 1976, four contemporary witnesses from the Northeast recall their memories of that day and the ensuing consequences.

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