There is a new Human Rights Watch report this week on the South, and this dominates news outside of the Thai press. There is a good independent piece by Marwaan Macn-Markar that I found at ipsnews on the role of women in the South under conditions of insurgency. A Thai court declined to read a verdict in an appeal by the one man convicted of wrong doing in the case of Somchai Neelaphaicit. This man has since disappeared himself, but the suspicion is that it is a sham disappearance. The effect of not reading the verdict is that we don't know whether the court would have sustained his appeal. Any action they take would be a matter of international attention, and this may be, too, over the next couple of days, as the story appears to have broken late in the week.
The purpose of this un-blog is to create an archive of stories from the ephemera of the internet and Thai press websites. I have not included URLs for Nation and Post pieces, partially out of laziness, mostly because I assumed they would be non-functioning within a month or two of my posting them, and because the basic source information is given. I decided to add them this week. I'll try to be more faithful with that.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52942
http://www.hrw.org/node/93085
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