Machine generated contents note: 1. Repetition of Arbitrary Detention -- 2. Birth of Human Rights and the Rise of Authoritarianism -- 3. Burning of People and Villages -- 4. Hidden Transcript of Amnesty -- 5. Accounting for Human Rights at the End of the Cold War -- 6. Disappearance and the Jurisprudence of Impunity -- 7. Who Can Be Killed with Impunity and Who Cannot Be Impugned?
Summary
Following a 1932 coup d'etat in Thailand that ended absolute monarchy and established a constitution, the Thai state that emerged has suppressed political dissent through detention, torture, forced reeducation, disappearances, assassinations, and massacres. In Plain Sight shows how these abuses, both hidden and occurring in public view, have become institutionalized
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-312) and index
