Tara Abhasakun

Tara Abhasakun is a journalist in Bangkok. She has reported on a range of human rights issues involving youth protests in Thailand, as well as arts and culture. Tara’s work has appeared in several outlets, including Al Jazeera and South China Morning Post. Tara discovered her love for writing about human rights issues while majoring […]

Following brutal violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya population, almost a million members of the persecuted minority group now live in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The most recent wave of Rohingyas arrived in August 2017, after Myanmar’s military launched a deadly counter-insurgency and ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingyas.  The migration of Rohingyas to Bangladesh has brought with […]

Thailand has experienced conflict in its Deep South over recent decades. The Deep South includes the provinces of Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat, as well as four districts of Songkhla province. Muslims make up 76% of the region, with Buddhists comprising around 23%, and Christians and other religious groups making up smaller percentages of the population. […]

A Bangkok photographer is using his work to promote peace and challenge stereotypes in Thailand’s ‘Deep South.’ Yostorn Triyos is the co-founder and director of the photography platform Realframe. He has now worked on numerous projects centered around political and social justice issues in Thailand. His photos have explored protests calling for democracy in Thailand, […]

Nurainee Nurainee Jangoe was 13 when bombs and bullets ripped through the neighborhood surrounding her school in Thailand’s southern province of Pattani in 2004.  “There were bombings, shootings, and arguments between the police and army, and people at that time,” she told Peace News Network. Thailand’s ‘Deep South,’ which includes the provinces of Yala, Pattani, […]