The Thai junta just ordered the Thai education ministry to teach more of Thai history to Thai students. Much have been said about how that Thai history is mostly “Revisionist” and have little to do with truth. Orwellian describes a totalitarian dystopia characterised by government control and subjugation of the people. Orwell’s invented language, Newspeak, satirises hypocrisy…
Harvard by some account, has taken about US$6 million from the Thai junta, to starts Thai Study program. Subsequently, Harvard Crimson, a newspaper for the university ran a report critical of the move. Due to safety concern, Harvard Crimson pulled the report and after the journalist who wrote the article left Thailand, the newspaper re-posted the…
Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang, a Thai constitutional law scholar that is well reputed globally, says of the junta’s Interim Constitution, quote: “Oligarchy is obvious” & “Moral Absolutism.” Wikipedia defines Oligarchy follows: Oligarchy (from Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía); from ὀλίγος (olígos), meaning “few”, and ἄρχω (arkho), meaning “to rule or to command”)[1][2][3] is a form ofpower structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people. These…
A local press, Bangkok Post, reports US Ambassador Kristie Kenney met Thai air force chief ACM Prajin Juntong in Bangkok on Thursday evening and confirmed Washington would go ahead with a service update for some of Thailand’s F-16 fighter jets. . Air force spokesman AM Monthol Satchukorn said Mrs Kenney paid a courtesy call on…
In a statement of the Organisation of Free Thais for Human Rights and Democracy (FT-HD) said in the coming days and weeks the FT-HD will present the People’s Constitution in order to return democracy and sovereignty to the Thai people. “The FT-HD wants to make it clear that NCPO is a criminal organisation that has…
A man on the run from Prayuth’s junta prosecution, Thantawut Taweewarodomkul, says, quote: “I decided that I will go to a third country after this in order to begin a new life. I have left my son, who I love with all my heart, with my parents. They have been threatened every day. Police and…
The New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch released a public statement today condemning what it’s calling a “charter for dictatorship.” Human Rights Watch and Thailand’s military junta is on a collision course. A top junta official has dismissed criticism from the US-based Human Rights Watch that Thailand’s new provisional constitution grants superfluous power to…
Two months after Thai coup? Modern Western materialism with North Korea fundamentals! A foreign friend DM me, asking me, what is it like, living under a “Dictatorship” junta, for 2 months now. For me, initially, it was fear to be called in for an attitude adjustment. Now, it is like a small group of people holding…
One of Thaksin’s daughters, Instagramed posted a picture of Thaksin standing next to a sign. The sign said “Wait.” Thaksin’s daughter also said the sign, said “Wait.” This is the second respond by Thaksin to the coup. The first was that he was deeply saddened. The posting, caused a great debate on the social media,…
It has been about a month after the coup and many are asking, where is Thailand today? For the first few weeks of the coup, it was mostly about clamp-down and crack-down. For much of the past week, events relating to Thailand moved at a swift pace, mostly, about Prayuth stamping his dictator ways onto…
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