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An Open Letter to Thailand’s General Prayuth

By Robert Amsterdam | Published: May 2, 2016

Dear General Prayuth Chan-Ocha, It’s now almost two years since you and your associates staged your coup in May 2014. Since then I have been silent not for lack of payment but because you have taken so many people hostage – indeed, you’ve take the entire country hostage. To call that coup anti-democratic, illegal and […]

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Amsterdam & Partners LLP Retained by Nurse Kate’s Mother

By Citizen M | Published: October 26, 2015

Amsterdam and Partners would like to announce with immediate effect that they have been retained on a pro-bono basis by Thai human rights’ activist, Phayaw Akkahad. In May 2010, during a brutal and lethal crackdown by the Thai Army under the orders of the Abhisit Vejjajiva led Democrat Party government, Phayaw’s daughter, Kamonked “Nurse Kate” […]

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Prayuth’s Habit of Threatening Journalists

By Robert Amsterdam | Published: July 17, 2015

There is little doubt that the current military dictator of Thailand, General Prayuth Chan-ocha, ranks among the most odious pariahs on the international stage, who thinks nothing of simply announcing that he intends to murder journalists or anyone else who stands in his way. Here is a quick excerpt from the latest press release from […]

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China’s Horizontal of Incompetence

By Robert Amsterdam | Published:

During Vladimir Putin’s early years, his media team were very proud of spreading the concept of the “vertical of power,” the idea that the presidency had consolidated so much authority that the inconveniences of bureaucratic process would be magically dissolved by executive privilege. Of course as time wore on, and the idea of a unified […]

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One Year After the Coup, Thailand Languishes in Darkness

By Robert Amsterdam | Published: May 22, 2015

The Thai military coup of May 22nd 2014 had been months, if not years, in the making. Ever since PM Yingluck Shinawatra’s landslide election win in July 2011, it had been clear – to all those who were willing to see – that the Thai people’s genuine commitment to democracy was doomed to be usurped […]

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Abhisit’s Shameful Responsibility for the 2010 Bangkok Massacre

By Robert Amsterdam | Published: May 19, 2015

It was five years ago on May 19th 2010 that 100s of unarmed Thai pro-democracy protesters sought refuge in one of central Bangkok’s most famous temples – Wat Pathum. They had gone there under the promise from the Thai authorities that the temple was a designated safe haven and to escape the snipers and soldiers […]

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Why We Will Never Forget the Human Rights Crimes of the Thai Army

By Robert Amsterdam | Published: May 16, 2015

If there is one characteristic that defines Abhisit Vejjajiva’s baleful Democrat Party-led Thai government of 2008 to 2011, it is its shocking and callous disregard for human life during the Bangkok Massacre of 2010. As my law firm has reiterated time and time again, setting highly trained snipers, equipped with the latest battlefield military hardware, […]

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Amsterdam & Partners LLP to Release Key Documents Relating to 2010 Bangkok Massacre

By Citizen M | Published: May 12, 2015

May 19th 2015 will mark the 5th anniversary of the Bangkok Massacre when almost 100 unarmed Thai civilians were murdered on the streets of the Thai capital at the hands of the Thai Army during April-May 2010. May 19th also specifically marks the deaths of 6 innocent civilians who were shot and killed in 2010 […]

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Thailand’s Junta Must Not Be Allowed to Distort Historical Memory

By Robert Amsterdam | Published: May 7, 2015

“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future” In the late 1960s and early 1970s the Thai Army were engaged in a fierce struggle with the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) for control of the country. Vast swathes of the kingdom were under the jurisdiction of […]

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The NACC Whitewash of Abhisit

By Robert Amsterdam | Published: March 11, 2015

The recent announcement by Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) that it will be initiating an official investigation into former Thai PM Abhisit Vejjajiva for his part in the 2010 Bangkok Massacre should be greeted with the suspicion that all actions undertaken by the junta administration deserve. In few other countries would the murders of dozens […]

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