Reconciliation as Free-Floating Signification: Reconciliation after 2014 Coup in Thailand

• Main Author: Sripokangkul, Siwach
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2015
• Subjects: reconciliation; free-floating signification; human rights violation; military government; Thailand
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol15/iss2/8; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/apssr/article/1059/viewcontent/7_20sripokangkul_20121015.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

The word reconciliation has become common throughout Thai society since the aftermath of the massacres of Red Shirt protesters in the heart of Bangkok in the months April and May 2010, which killed around a hundred people and injured 2,000 more. The word came into use by the government since the mas...