Junya Yimprasert on the Thai crisis

Junya Yimprasert of the Thai Labour Campaign has just posted a long analysis of the current crisis in Thailand. Many pertinent questions about the present and recent past are raised.  While PPT urges readers to read and examine the entire analysis, we wish to draw your attention to  the comments about the new “cyber army” who are using alternative media to bypass the censorship now common in the mainstream and corporate media in Thailand:

“The cyber army plays an important role in helping to track and inform on the health and whereabouts of arrested leaders, and in the search for the dead and missing. In countering government-controlled misinformation the chat-boards throw up important questions. What kind of government blocks discussion on real issues and permits statements like ‘red-shirts are not Thai, not human and should be shot on sight’? How come the Monarchy, Army, Police and the whole academic community do not actively condemn such incitement?”

PPT asks the same questions. Any answers?

Read the entire article here, Junya Yimprasert, 12 May 2009, “The ‘Voter’s Uprising’ that is changing perceptions in THAILAND”

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