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Repression in Thailand Dictator Watch - 24.02.2003 23:40
A new Asian dictatorship DICTATOR WATCH Contact: Roland Watson, roland@dictatorwatch.org. Please see www.dictatorwatch.org/chrono for links to the full press release and the reports and photo essay described below. QUESTIONS FOR THAILAND Prime Minister Thaksin of Thailand visited Burma February 9-10. In response to this visit, and as a submission to the Free Burma Coalition�s national conference at George Washington University, February 15-16, Dictator Watch announces the release of three new reports and one photo essay. These document Thailand�s support for the Burmese junta�s program of ethnic cleansing along their shared border, and they include information regarding refugees, internally displaced persons, attacked villages, the use of porters resulting in death, and �Black Zones.� The reports and photo essay are: - The Fifty-Five That Disappeared - Sixty-Three Lives That Do Not Matter, Persecuted in Burma - Denied Sanctuary in Thailand - The Yielding of Thai Sovereignty - Reasons to be a Refugee (photo essay) Note: the DW website also contains the full press release. |
supplements |  | functioning dictatorships?!?! | vraagteken - 25.02.2003 02:23
het klonk als een goed initiatief 'dictatorwatch' totdat ik stuitte op het volgende zinnetje op de website: Some nations which are rated partly free can also be regarded as functioning dictatorships, such as Malaysia.
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