• The new government of Yingluck Shinawatra has not yet fulfilled early promises to give priority to Thailand’s many human rights problems. There has been little progress in holding to account those responsible for political violence in 2010 that killed 90 and injured 2,000. Thai authorities enforce censorship and prosecute activists using the Computer Crimes Act and lese majeste laws. In the southern border provinces, separatist insurgents attack civilians and target teachers in government-run schools, and government security forces torture and disappear persons with impunity. Thai authorities continue to ignore human rights abuses against migrant workers and pushed Rohingya asylum seekers arriving by boat back out to sea.
  • Anti-government "red shirt" protesters clash with soldiers at an army base near the parliament in Bangkok on April 10, 2010.

    The Thai government has not arrested or charged a single soldier or official for any of the scores of deaths and hundreds of injuries during the political violence in Bangkok two years ago.

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