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PostPeace to Say No Emergency Decree

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    6 years that Thailand's three Muslim provinces
    have been under emergency decree
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    Countless number of people was affected by the unjust power and control from government officers under the decree.
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    Emergency decree isn't a good law
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    Those who were arrested got tortured in order to make them confess
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    This is not right
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    Because when being tortured, those who couldn't stand the pain,
    they just had to admit even though they didn't do anything
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    This is not right
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    If they really did wrong, there should be evidence and punishment accordingly
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    Entering the 8th year of violence in three Muslim provinces
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    Many groups and civil society organizations have been established with the same objective
    and determination to see peace once again in the areas
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    As well as the Civil Society Network Against Emergency Decree
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    that has been continuously campaigning against the decree with different activities varied from releasing statements
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    holding different campaigns like kicking out the decree
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    by driving classical cars and motorbikes,
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    to organizing a people's forum against the decree
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    Recently, the activity has been lifted to international level with "Post Peace Campaign"
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    by allowing local people to express their opinions and intentions towards this emergency decree on postcards
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    as reflections of their feelings and make their voices heard among representatives of international organizations.
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    Today, we're going to make an action by collecting voices of people who want to call for stopping emergency decree
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    by writing short messages that we want to express to the United Nations on these postcards
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    and we'll send all of them to the head quarter of U.N. in Thailand on this coming 10 December which is the Thai Constitution Day's and also International Human Rights Day
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    The campaign to express people's feelings on postcards
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    has received good response from local people,
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    especially those working in city area in Pattani that got effects from such decree.
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    I hope the situation will be normal soon so I can work more conveniently
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    When going to pray or elsewhere during early morning,
    I don't need to worry that I'll be searched by the army or arrested for investigation
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    I think there must be campaign against emergency decree
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    This emergency decree has been enforced for a long while
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    and its enforcement has violated basic rights of local people in our areas
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    We no longer agree with the emergency decree enforcement in our areas
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    If it's still necessary to use the emergency decree then there must be justice
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    If there's no justice, then it should be repealed
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    The movement of the Civil Society Network Against Emergency Decree doesn't only aim to have the decree repealed
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    but also to reduce the condition that could lead to endless violence
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    Time has proven that the emergency decree couldn't reduce the incidents
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    and it even creates hatred among the people who were affected by the unjust power and control of officers
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    Therefore, should the New Year present that the current government of Ms. Yingluck Chinnawatra
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    would give to people who oppose the emergency decree in three Muslim provinces on this coming 19 December be repealing the emergency decree?
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    We oppose the emergency decree!
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    We oppose the emergency decree!
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    We oppose the emergency decree!
Title:
PostPeace to Say No Emergency Decree
Description:

For the past six years, the Thai government has placed three Muslim provinces under the repressive emergency decree. Throughout those years, countless number of people have been affected by the unjust power and control from government officers. The events have been brought out to the international level through the "Post Peace Campaign" which encourages the local people to express their opinions and demands against this emergency decree. They do so on postcards which make their voices heard among representatives of various international organizations.
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