InDara & Associates

13/03/2026

As my service in Geneva draws to a close, I leave with a full heart and a deep sense of gratitude.

02/03/2026

09/02/2026

“ខ្ញុំនឹងបន្តនិយាយជំនួសបងប្អូន ការពារសិទ្ធិរបស់បងប្អូន និងនាំយករឿងរ៉ាវរបស់បងប្អូនទៅគ្រប់ទីកន្លែងដែលខ្ញុំទៅដល់ រហូតដល់ថ្ងៃដែលគ្រួសារទាំងអស់អាចត្រឡប់ទៅផ្ទះវិញដោយសុវត្ថិភាព រស់នៅដោយគ្មានការភ័យខ្លាច និងឈរលើដីរបស់ខ្លួនដោយមានសេចក្តីថ្លៃថ្នូរ។”

“I will continue to speak for you, defend your rights, and carry your stories wherever I go—until the day every family can return home safely, live without fear and stand with dignity on their own land.”

22/01/2026

23/12/2025

Op-Ed: “Humanitarian Boasts in a Time of Shelling: The Thai Foreign Minister’s Curious Sense of Memory,” tracing how humanitarian self-praise falters when confronted by present-day civilian harm.

“Yet humanitarianism is not established by eloquence, nor sanctified by repetition. It is tested at precisely those moments when restraint is hardest and power most easily abused. On that test, Thailand’s narrative does not merely weaken—it fractures, both in memory and in real time…

International humanitarian law is famously indifferent to rhetoric. It does not ask how confidently a minister speaks, but whether civilians were protected; whether distinction and proportionality were respected; whether lives, homes, schools and cultural sites were spared…

There is something faintly surreal in invoking refugee protection while generating fresh displacement; in praising shelters once offered while civilians now seek shelter from fire; in celebrating peace while military operations empty villages. This is not humanitarianism remembered. It is humanitarianism reframed.”

https://www.phnompenhpost.com/opinion/humanitarian-boasts-in-a-time-of-shelling-the-thai-foreign-minister-s-curious-sense-of-memory

19/12/2025

Op-Ed: 'From landmines to nostalgia: Thailand theatre of justifications':

“The present episode follows the same choreography: border tension as distraction, narrative as substitute. This is not security planning; it is political displacement.

International law is indifferent to such manoeuvres. Internal political difficulty does not generate entitlement abroad, nor does it dilute responsibility for unlawful conduct…

International law draws a firm boundary here: domestic politics end at the border. When theatre crosses sovereignty, it ceases to be metaphor and becomes violation…

As George Scelle warned, the violation of law does not create law; it creates responsibility. Under the law of State responsibility, conduct attributable to State organs that breaches international obligations engages responsibility automatically. No degree of rhetorical agility alters that equation.” D

[Op-Ed] Some States wage war with armies. Others wage it with narratives. Thailand has done both. In its confrontation with Cambodia, narratives have been pressed into service as its pretext for military action. What has emerged is a bespoke theatre of justifications so swift, so internally contradictory and so conspicuously detached from law that each appears designed not to explain conduct, but to outrun responsibility. Landmines yesterday, online scams today, military incapacitation tomorrow, territorial nostalgia always. The script changes; the facts do not. What binds these narratives together is not evidence or legality, but speed. What emerges is not a legal case, but a performance.

👉🔗 Full Story: https://www.phnompenhpost.com/opinion/from-landmines-to-nostalgia-thailand-s-theatre-of-justifications

17/12/2025

Op-Ed in response to General Chaiyapruek Duangprapat’s war policy: From Confession to Consequence: Why the Thai Army Commander’s War Policy Triggers Responsibility

[Op-Ed] There are moments when international responsibility no longer needs to be inferred, reconstructed or debated. It announces itself — clearly, publicly and with a confidence that betrays a belief that power itself constitutes a legal defence.

👉🔗 Full Story: https://www.phnompenhpost.com/opinion/from-confession-to-consequence-why-thai-army-commander-s-war-policy-triggers-responsibility