It's eight years later, and I hope no one's still awaiting my analysis of the reconciliation committee's recommendations.
Happily, the world has since evolved into a just and equitable place where the afflicted are so comforted and the comfortable so afflicted there's just nothing to write about anymore. Thailand lost its taste for injustice and has embraced transparency and accountability. The world's affairs are now settled through reason and consensus with no place for demagogues or other social demogorgons.
I'm glad this site remains online, though the clutch domain name is long lost. It's main life was during the years I was working independently between news organizations.
Today is marks the 9th anniversary of the final crackdown of the Redshirt protests that were the primary topic in this space those 10 years ago.
Thailand has since cycled through another democratically elected Shinawatra and another coup and now exists in a neither-here-nor-there. There's a new king.
I built one news organization from the ground up and currently front Coconuts Bangkok, Singapore and Yangon.
In fact you can revisit those torrid weeks of April-May 2010 in podcast form through the story below:
10 years ago today, when Bangkok bled: Inside 2010’s protests and their bloody conclusion
I've archived the infamous 'Unmasked: Thailand's men in black' story as it has recently vanished from Asia Times Online.
