京都大学東南アジア地域研究研究所では、10月10日にTyrell Haberkorn先生（ウィスコンシン大学マディソン校）とMaitrii
Aung-Thwin先生（シンガポール国立大学）をお招きして、タイおよびミャンマーに関するセミナーを開催します。平日ではありますが、ご関心のある方はご出席いただけると幸いです。詳細は以下のとおりです。
日時：10月10日（木）12時〜15時
場所：稲盛財団記念会館2F・東南亭
使用言語：英語
Dear all,
You are cordially invited to a Special Seminar on Power and Amnesty in
Southeast Asia.
by
Dr. Tyrell Haberkorn, University of Wisconsin-Madison
and
Dr. Maitrii Aung-Thwin, National University of Singapore
*on Thursday, October 10, 2019, 12 to 3 p.m.*
*at Tonan Tei (Room 201), Inamori Foundation Building*
Abstract:
*Without Account: A History of Coup Amnesties in Thailand*
Tyrell Haberkorn, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Between 1932 and 2018, there have been twelve successful – meaning the coup
makers seized power – coups in Thailand. Each time, the coup makers have
protected themselves by passing an amnesty, in the new constitution
promulgated by the dictator or junta, in a stand-alone law, and sometimes
both. Each amnesty article or law has retroactively legalized the coup in
question and protected the coupmakers from possible prosecution or other
sanction. In each instance, the amnesty has turned rebellion into an
administrative action and legalized the extrajudicial seizure of power from
the people. Over time, the repeated amnesties have institutionalized the
dispossession of democracy and the people’s role in the Thai polity. This
paper traces the legal and political history of the repetition of the use
of amnesty as a way to understand one aspect of the foreclosure of
accountability and the production of impunity for the military. What legal
and social political work does each amnesty perform individually, and how
do they function as a history? What language and aspects of amnesty law
have remained consistent over different iterations of the amnesties, and
what new legal maneuvers have been introduced? What legal and political
challenges to amnesty have been made, and which remain unthinkable? Framed
by comparison with legal amnesties for coups in other countries, this paper
reflects on what the history and repetition of coup amnesties means for the
possibility of justice in Thailand. The paper concludes with a reflection
on the most recent coup, the 22 May 2014 coup by the National Council for
Peace and Order, the constitutional amnesty provisions passed, and the
possibility of undoing them following a future democratic transition.
*Tyrell Haberkorn* works on state violence and dissident cultural politics
in Thailand and is Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies in the
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Revolution Interrupted: Farmers,
Students, Law and Violence in Northern Thailand (University of Wisconsin
Press, 2011), which rethinks the meaning of revolution in terms of legal
rather than armed struggle; and In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights
in Thailand (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018), a new history of
post-absolutist Thailand written through the lens of impunity. Tyrell also
writes and translates frequently about Thailand for a broad, public
audience, including Mekong Review, Dissent, Foreign Affairs, openDemocracy,
and Prachatai.
*Intra-village Grievances and the Subversion of Amnesty in Colonial Burma,
1930-1934*
Maitrii Aung-Thwin, National University of Singapore
In late 1930, a violent uprising broke out in the rural rice fields of
British Burma, resulting in attacks on forestry officers, railroads, and
other symbols of colonial authority. Although initially limited in scope
and scale to the district of Tharrawaddy, the uprising escalated into a
multi-sited rebellion, covering the majority of the Irrawaddy Burma delta
region and sections of Upper Burma. In response, the colonial government
passed emergency legislation that gave them special powers of search,
seizure, arrest, prosecution and sentencing that could circumvent
conventional common-law legal procedures, making it easier to capture,
imprison, and execute suspects accused of waging war against the
King-Emperor. Among these special powers was the granting of amnesty to
captured detainees in exchange for their cooperation as “approvers” or
prosecution witnesses. These amnesty grantees became a key element of the
colonial state’s ability to prosecute accused rebels, resulting in
thousands of arrests. An examination of these records produce three key
findings: (1) the awarding of amnesty to former accused rebels would become
an important prosecutorial instrument of the colonial government in the
absence of material evidence; (2) the testimonies of amnesty grantees would
serve as the basis for key tropes of the rebellion narrative; and (3)
villagers would use the amnesty mechanism in order to exercise retribution
for personal intra-village grievances. This study suggests that the unrest
associated with the rebellion was as much about divisions within rural
British Burma as it was an expression of dissent towards colonial policies
and practices.
*Maitrii Aung-Thwin* is Associate Professor of Myanmar/Southeast Asian
History and Convenor of the Comparative Asian Studies PhD Program. His
research interests include nation-building, social movements, resistnce,
public history, socio-legal studies, and religious networks in Southeast
Asia. His publications include a History of Myanmar Since Ancient Times:
Traditions and Transformations (with Michael Aung-Thwin, 2013), The Return
of the Galon King: History, Law, and Rebellion in Colonial Burma (2011),
and A New History of Southeast Asia (with Merle Ricklefs et al, 2010). He
was a member of the Board of the Directors for the Association of Asian
Studies, Chair of the Southeast Asia Council, and President of the Burma
Studies Group. He is currently a Trustee of the Burma Studies Foundation,
Editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies and Deputy Director of the
Asia Research Institute (Singapore).
*This seminar is supported by Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO).
—
Yoshihiro NAKANISHI, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
46 Shimoadachi-cho, Yoshida Sakyo-ku, Kyoto
606-8501, Japan
Tel: +81-75-753-7837
Fax: +81-75-753-7350
E-mail: nakayosi[at]cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp