New Mandala

I am currently hard at work on my paper on local political culture in northern Thailand. One of the issues I want to consider, briefly, is the role of what might be called “rural civil society”. In particular, I am interested in the role of empowerment/advocacy organisations such as the Assembly of the Poor and the [...]

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Here (Decha 2006) is an interesting article by Decha Tangseefa of the Peace Information Centre at Thammasat University. It discusses the plight of displaced Karen on the border between Burma and Thailand. The last paragraph of the paper provides a good indication of its appropriately passionate tone:
The forcibly displaced left their homes because of the junta’s atrocities. [...]

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