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STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 24, 2021 • 9 min read

Analysis The Bangkok disappearance of Thanong Po-Arn, three decades on

By Mark S. Cogan • Jun 24, 2021
This week 30 years ago, the car of vocal Thai labour organiser Thanong Po-Arn was found abandoned in Bangkok, the culmination of months of death threats. His presumed murder remains unsolved, but Thailand's trend of enforced disappearances is alive and well

Jun 16, 2020 • 4 min read
Online activism

In Thailand, activists flood online to protest Wachalearm disappearance

With the whereabouts of missing activist Wanchalearm still unknown, protestors in Thailand are turning to social media to express their grief and start hashtags as platforms like Twitter continue to adopt an increasingly significant role in the kingdom's political discourse
By Wanpen Pajai • Jun 16, 2020

Jun 11, 2020 • 6 min read
Editorial

Card swapping: The Mekong countries’ problem with activist kidnapping

When Thai activist Wanchalearm Satsaksit was bundled into a car in Phnom Penh on June 4, he became merely the latest in a string of forced disappearances in the region. With several authoritarian governments coexisting in close proximity, the peculiarly Mekong country issue of activist kidnapping shows no sign of abating
By Alastair McCready • Jun 11, 2020

Jun 09, 2020 • 2 min read
Thai dissidents

Cambodia to probe Thai democracy activist’s alleged disappearance

Cambodian police have said they will investigate the alleged abduction of Wanchalearm Satsaksit, a critic of the ex-general Prayut Chan-O-Cha's Thai government, who witnesses say was dragged into a black car in Phnom Penh on June 4
By Agence France-Presse • Jun 09, 2020

Jun 05, 2020 • 2 min read
Thai dissidents

Cambodian police refuse probe into Thai activist ‘disappearance’

Human Rights Watch reported on June 5 that self-exiled Thai dissident Wanchalearm Satsaksit was snatched off the street in Phnom Penh the day before. Cambodian police have ruled out a probe into his alleged disappearance
By Agence France-Presse • Jun 05, 2020