Opinion: Remembrance of an Activist Thai Poet

It is nearly one year since Kamol Duangphasuk, widely known among Thailand’s Red Shirt activists as “Mainueng Kor Kunthee,” was assassinated by an unidentified gunman who approached his car and shot at him five times in a restaurant parking lot in northern Bangkok.

The gunman escaped on a motorcycle. Mainueng, whose pen name (ไม้หนึ่ง) means "one wood" –…