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Scholars call for reform in courts

Thai society needs to resurrect the question of coup-related legal consequences, particularly those undermining respect for people's rights, scholars and progressive red-shirt and Nitirat members told a university forum.

They also challenged long-embedded conventions they said suppress the virtues of a citizen's rights when standing before the courts of justice.

Worachet Pakeerut (Photo by Patipat Janthong)

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  • pquinlan

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    Discussion 3 : 20 Mar 2013 at 08.273

    Calling Nittirat "scholars" is a stretch too far. They are political activists who happens to be paid teachers at a tertiary institution. Their pronouncements should be understood from that perspective, not as scholars pronouncing immutable facts or even theorems.

  • Hypocrisy

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    Discussion 2 : 19 Mar 2013 at 14.082

    I think Thai justice is quite easy to understand, basically if you are rich then you are above the law and if you are poor then you are below it! and I can't see this changing soon.

  • Contrarian

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    Discussion 1 : 19 Mar 2013 at 13.571

    At risk of gross oversimplification of this thoughtful article, a conclusion jumps out at me - Get over the Double standards modus operandi, recognize that it exists and do somethin'.

    One doesn't need to go through all sorts of intellectual contortions to count the number of coupist/govt. house sackers/airporters that are in jail - 0, compared to the number of those at R'song, who simply objected to being governed by a coup imposed, electoral minority and called for elections.

    It is nice to see references to the coup centrality in this, instead of only demonizing those who stood up to it.

    No one-hand clapping here

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