Vigil for 'disappeared' Thai activists
Channel: Green Left
Date: 2023-09-20

In late December 2018, two bodies that had been gutted and weighed down with a cement pole in the Mekong River, were discovered the river shore in Nakhon Phanom Province. It was later confirmed that they were the bodies of "Comrade Phuchana" (Chatchan Bupphawan) and "Comrade Kasalong" (Kraidet Luelert). These two were friends of Surachai Sae-dan who disappeared from his residence in Laos on December 2 along with Comrade Phuchan and Comrade Kasalong. Surachai Sae-dan's fate is still unknown.
These three are among the 86 people who have been forcibly disappeared by the Thai authority, and there are many more who don't even have names for identification. The Australian Alliance for Thai Democracy held a vigil at Sydney Town Hall square on September 19, 2023 to remember and mourn these victims of enforced disappearances and to demand democracy in Thailand.
Video by Peter Boyle for Green Left.