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The Justice for Peace Foundation (JPF) in Thailand plans to hold a panel discussion on "Challenges to the new government and how to solve enforced disappearances" in Bangkok on Sept.1, the International Day of the Disappeared.
The Justice for Peace Foundation (JPF) in Thailand plans to hold a panel discussion on "Challenges to the new government and how to solve enforced disappearances" in Bangkok on Sept.1, the International Day of the Disappeared.
The discussion will be preceded by an overview of the situation by well-known rights activist Angkhana Neelapaijit, whose husband prominent Muslim human rights lawyer Somchai has been missing since 2004 in a case rights activists say involved obstruction of justice by police and government officials.
Somchai's disappearance is linked to the violence in Thailand’s three southernmost provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, where ethnic Malay Muslim separatists are fighting for autonomy from the majority Buddhist country. The conflict has killed over 4,500 people and wounded more than 7,500 since it began in 2004.
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