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<strong>Government</strong> <strong>and</strong> Political <strong>Legitimacy</strong><br />

Conceptual Framework on the Implementation<br />

<strong>of</strong> Human Rights: A Case Study from Human<br />

Rights Violations During the War against Drugs<br />

<strong>of</strong> 2003<br />

Suchart Wongsinnak 1<br />

Today’s challenges on governmental<br />

power by claiming human rights is<br />

visible throughout the world as<br />

democratic states bind themselves to<br />

international human rights principles. At the<br />

very least, democratic states do not accept<br />

br<strong>and</strong>ing by global society as violators <strong>of</strong><br />

human rights. For this reason, human rights<br />

are one type <strong>of</strong> criteria used to evaluate the<br />

government’s use power to ensure compliance<br />

with moral <strong>and</strong> legal principles. Driving<br />

human rights for the aforementioned goal is<br />

not only a matter <strong>of</strong> state, which once was<br />

the center <strong>of</strong> law enforcement. On the<br />

contrary, human right activists become<br />

individuals with key roles in taking human<br />

1 Ph.D. in Criminology, Law <strong>and</strong> Society, University <strong>of</strong> Florida. He is currently a<br />

litigation <strong>of</strong>ficer attached to the Administrative Court Officer.<br />

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