Human Rights in Thailand. Don F. Selby

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      Human Rights in Thailand

      PENNSYLVANIA STUDIES IN HUMAN RIGHTS

      Bert B. Lockwood, Jr., Series Editor

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      HUMAN RIGHTS IN THAILAND

      Don F. Selby

      UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

      PHILADELPHIA

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Selby, Don, author.

      Title: Human rights in Thailand / Don F. Selby.

      Other titles: Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

      Description: 1st edition. | Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] | Series: Pennsylvania studies in human rights | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017047292 | ISBN 9780812250220 (hardcover: alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Human rights—Social aspects—Thailand.

      Classification: LCC JC599.T5 S37 2018 | DDC 323.09593—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017047292

       For Mailan

       Contents

       List of Abbreviations

       Timeline of Events

       Introduction. Emerging Human Rights in Thailand

       Chapter 1. Experimenting with Fate

       Chapter 2. Political Struggle and Human Rights

       Chapter 3. Patronage, Face, Vulnerability: Articulations of Human Rights

       Chapter 4. “Kat Mai Ploi”: Motherhood and Pursuits of Justice

       Chapter 5. The Return of Coup Politics

       Conclusion

       Appendix 1

       Appendix 2

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgments

       List of Abbreviations

CPT	Communist Party of Thailand
HSRO	Health System Reform Organization
IOM	International Organization for Migration
ISOC	Internal Security Operations Command
LPN	Labor Rights Promotion Network
LST	Law Society of Thailand
MAP	Medical Assistance Programs
MoPH	Ministry of Public Health
NCPO	National Council for Peace and Order
NHRC	National Human Rights Commission of Thailand
NPKC	National Peace Keeping Council
ONHRC	Office of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand
OTO	Office of the Ombudsman
PAD	People’s Alliance for Democracy
TACDB	Thai Action Committee for Democracy in Burma
TAG	Tsunami Action Group
UDD	United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship

       Timeline of Events

      This timeline identifies moments in Thailand’s political history important to the emergence of human rights in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Its purpose is to help orient the reader for the study that follows, rather than to provide an exhaustive history of Thai politics.

       1973

      Student demonstrations in Bangkok against the military government force “The Three Tyrants,” Thanom Kittikachorn, Phraphat Charusatien, and Narong Kittikachorn, into exile, and democratic elections are restored.

       1976

      Students protest the return of Thanom and Phraphat, but the military and paramilitary groups violently suppress them and reinstall a military government.

       1980–1982

      General Prem Tinsulanonda becomes prime