From my latest on Huffington Post:

It has been particularly heartening to see Germany’s decision to halt the sale of of military equipment – in the specific instance, engines that power Ukrainian-made armored personnel carriers – to the Royal Thai Army, citing EU rules which prohibit the sale of arms to “governments that systematically use violence to suppress or deny the rights of their citizens.” Thailand is finally beginning to be treated like the violent authoritarian state and serial human rights abuser that it is, rather than the sunny, smiling illusion once held in much of the West.