{"id":7777,"date":"2024-05-23T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asia-ajar.org\/justiceforpeace\/?p=7777"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:08:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:08:47","slug":"taste-of-resilience-reuniting-through-food-remembering-with-love-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asia-ajar.org\/justiceforpeace\/taste-of-resilience-reuniting-through-food-remembering-with-love-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope in the Midst of Pain: Endless Loop of Political Violence Through the Experience of Affected Individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In the past few decades, people in Thailand have experienced multiple coup attempts, excessive clampdowns against protesters, arbitrary arrests and torture, forced disappearances, and extra-judicial killings.\u00a0 The seminar discussed how society can overcome various conflicts, while addressing past human rights violations and recognizing survivors. Participants included government agencies, civil society, and affected individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the event, the AJAR Regional Program Manager Indria Fernida also presented the\u00a0 \u201cTransitional Justice Handbook”, and the lessons learned worldwide on peacebuilding and efforts towards transitional justice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The national seminar also launched two research reports: The joint report\u00a0 by AJAR and the Duay Jai Group, titled, \u201c We Just Want to Live in Peace: Strengthening Peace and Accountability for Conflict and Atrocities in Thailand\u201d, and \u201cTransition to Justice: Policy Recommendation by Affected Individuals of Political Violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

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In collaboration with the Museum of Popular History, the event also featured an exhibition titled the\u00a0\u201cDiary of the People: Past, Present, and Our Dreams\u201d. The artworks by political activists from the earlier \u201cLet Art Heal\u201d workshop showed healthy and relaxing ways to cope with stress, even without artistic talent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In his keynote speech for the seminar, Dr Prajak Kongkeerati of Thammasat University said the mission of transitional justice is \u201cshared by the entire society, including the state,\u201d not just judges and lawyers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One activist said, the police beating that he experienced was not the most painful experience; it was \u201cseeing my friend get arrested\u201d. Noppassin Treelayapewat added, \u201cRecently I had to go to the funeral of my friend who died in prison.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The seminar also increased awareness about elitist Thai history, similar to some other nations. A speaker said the textbooks \u201cpresent only one side of the story of the elite.\u201d Accounts about people\u2019s struggles are rarely found in books on Thai national history, said Anon Chawalawan from the Museum of Contemporary History, \u201cunlike the historical accounts of the royal families and nobles in each era.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the cases discussed was the \u201cTakbai case\u201d of southern Thailand, which statute of limitation was to expire on 25 October 2024, 20 years after 78 protesters died of suffocation in cramped trucks. Following the protests involving some 1,500 people in Takbai, Narathiwat province, high-ranking security officers allegedly ordered the transport of protesters to barracks about 150 kilometres away. Victims \u201cstill have a hope that the wrongdoers will be punished,\u201d said Araesoh Ayohsae, a lawyer for the case.\u00a0However, in late September, the eight suspects reportedly vanished before ever appearing in court.<\/span><\/p>\n

The lawsuit is the first filed by relatives of victims of state security operations against high-ranking officials allegedly responsible for excessive violence. As the <\/span>Bangkok Post<\/span><\/i> editorial of 1 October 2024 stated, \u201cThe Tak Bai lawsuit has become a symbol of the struggle against the state\u2019s culture of impunity\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

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