Rights Beautiful Collection of Professor Saneh Chamarik violence on the part of state authorities. And, interestingly, according to the NHRC’s examining report, those involved in the incident are not confined only to the operating police officers, but also include the ones in higher up accountable both at the level of field command and at ministerial policy level. Nothing has been done about all these wrong doings so far, despite the NHRC’s report accordingly. At any rate, it is one of those cases that is clearly valuable and relevant in the process of human rights education as mentioned above. And finally, there currently emerges the collective and communal dimension of human rights that has been widely and increasingly articulated and demonstrated under the adverse social and cultural impact of post-war economic development and globalization. And now the community rights come to be recognized and guaranteed under the current reform-inspired 1997 Constitution. This is characteristic of Thailand as part and parcel of the world’s tropical resource-based regions, and for that matter the ASEAN as a whole. Indeed, the NHRC of Thailand earnestly looks forward to close and concrete cooperation and coordination in this particular field within the region. In a sense, this is in contradistinction to unbridled individualism and private property rights of the West. All of which is not quite universal as it is made out to be. So the common efforts in this direction would greatly help contribute to the process of universalizing human rights with a view to cultural pluralism and diversity, while doing away with both essentialism and relativism: one claiming monopoly of the partial definition of human rights, while the other denying the universality of human aspiration for freedom. All these lines of thought are within the purview of the NHRC of Thailand, and hopefully we can get somewhere. At least, a sense of direction has been set, and this is what we have been trying to do in a most tedious process of institution building and development of human rights culture at all levels of society. OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF THAILAND 63