In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand

✍ Scribed by Tyrell Haberkorn

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 373
• Series: New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Following a 1932 coup d'état in Thailand that ended absolute monarchy and established a constitution, the Thai state that emerged has suppressed political dissent through detention, torture, forced reeducation, disappearances, assassinations, and massacres. In Plain Sight shows how these abuses, both hidden and occurring in public view, have become institutionalized through a chronic failure to hold perpetrators accountable. Tyrell Haberkorn's deeply researched revisionist history of modern Thailand highlights the legal, political, and social mechanisms that have produced such impunity and documents continual and courageous challenges to state domination.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Note on Language, Translation, and Dates
Introduction: Impunity as State Formation
1. The Repetition of Arbitrary Detention
2. The Birth of Human Rights and the Rise of Authoritarianism
3. The Burning of People and Villages
4. The Hidden Transcript of Amnesty
5. Accounting for Human Rights at the End of the Cold War
6. Disappearance and the Jurisprudence of Impunity
7. Who Can Be Killed with Impunity and Who Cannot Be Impugned?
Conclusion: History in a Time of Dictatorship
Appendix: A New, Partial Chronology of Thai History
Notes
Bibliography
Index