{"article":{"id":28873,"heading":"Repression in Thailand","author":"Dictator Watch","created":"2003-02-13 21:41:59","modified":"2013-11-10 23:48:33","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:48:33","article":"<p>DICTATOR WATCH <br><br> Contact: Roland Watson, <a href=\"mailto:roland@dictatorwatch.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">roland@dictatorwatch.org<\/a>. Please see www.dictatorwatch.org\/chrono for links to the full press release and the reports and photo essay described below. <br><br> QUESTIONS FOR THAILAND <br><br> 10 February 2003 <br><br> Prime Minister Thaksin of Thailand visited Burma February 9-10. In response to this visit, and as a submission to the Free Burma Coalition&rsquo;s national conference at George Washington University, February 15-16, Dictator Watch announces the release of three new reports and one photo essay. These document Thailand&rsquo;s support for the Burmese junta&rsquo;s program of ethnic cleansing along their shared border, and they include information regarding refugees, internally displaced persons, attacked villages, the use of porters resulting in death, and &ldquo;Black Zones.&rdquo; <br><br> The reports and photo essay are:  <br><br> - The Fifty-Five That Disappeared <br>  <br> - Sixty-Three Lives That Do Not Matter, Persecuted in Burma - Denied Sanctuary in Thailand <br>  <br> - The Yielding of Thai Sovereignty <br>  <br> - Reasons to be a Refugee (photo essay) <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"A new Asian dictatorship?","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/02\/28873.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}