…“My Country Got” by Rap Against Dictatorship was released on YouTube and the public was rumored to be threatened with fines before it went viral. Once viral, the police confirmed…
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…Dictatorship. (Photo © Rap Against Dictatorship) Music with a message Bangkok Post After releasing the viral anti-junta single Prathet Ku Mee (What My Country’s Got) two years ago, rap group…
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…of a covid oxygen mask. A Facebook post on the ‘Raise Three Fingers, Dove’ protest. A rap against Junta. A rap against Junta. The logo for ‘Rap Against Junta’. A…
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…in new and subversive ways, and have found their voice by creating an anti-dictatorship arts movement. The collective Rap Against Dictatorship’s music videos criticise the Thai government, and have notched…
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…Marcos’ father is the late president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. In describing the latter, newsrooms had to decide whether to drop the word ‘dictator’ and replace it with ‘strongman,’…
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…ago to take his wife to work when he discovered police cars blocking the way and officers ready to take him into custody. The Rap Against Dictatorship founder’s crime? Six…
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…to a dictatorship that lived off the suppression of artistic rights and freedoms. While the basis for these two orders could simply be seen to be about controlling criticism and…
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…came as religious tensions escalate in the former military dictatorship leading up to a landmark general election on Sunday. In late August, Myanmar’s President Thein Sein approved the last of…
…Suharto dictatorship. Photo: Chinese Whispers May 1998 Jakarta riots against Chinese: ‘We cannot heal what we will not face,’ author of graphic novel says South China Morning Post Indonesia’s bloody…
