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Thailand's Toothless Human Rights Commission

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Jun 04, 2013
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During the administration of the then-Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRC) was dubbed the most helpful and most relevant independent agency in the eyes of ordinary Thais. That is no longer true.

At that time, the NHRC took on hard and sensitive human rights abuses committed under Thaksin's admin…

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