We have held onto this post for a while in order to get through some of the “election” posting. The interview by Kris Janssens on Thai Refugees is about exiles in Laos and became available just before the “election” and a reader alerted us to it. The blurb is:
Thailand will have elections this weekend, for the first time since the military junta took power five years ago. But critics say this is not the long-awaited return to democracy. Activists who have been convicted of violating the majesty law are in danger. They fled the country in fear of being arrested or even killed -as happened to others. Southeast Asia correspondent Kris Janssens visited four of them who went into exile.
We guess that listening to the interview would be banned in Thailand. It includes some excerpts from Fai Yen’s songs, and is available in English and, we think, Dutch. Some of the interview also includes Thai.
Political Prisoners in Thailand 