BANGKOK, Thailand -- To prevent protesters unleashing another urban insurrection, new CCTV cameras will eyeball streets where 90 people died, most of them civilians, and 1,400 were injured when the military battled Red Shirts and crushed their bamboo barricades in May.

Thailand's army-backed government now wields surveillance, imprisonment, censorship and other "state of emergency" powers across much of this Buddhist-majority Southeast Asian nation.

The Red Shirts admit they have been strangled, and are struggling to stay alive.

"Basically, we as an organization, we do not exist," said Sean Boonpracong, international spokesman for the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) -- commonly known as Red Shirts for their distinctive colored clothing.

"What we are trying to do is trying to survive. There are 820 warrants for arrest, for Red leaders nationwide. I think just slightly over one-third have been arrested," Mr. Boonpracong, 60, said in an interview.

The military also hauled him in, for six hours of interrogation at the army's headquarters in Bangkok, he said.

Today in Albany, NY and Columbus, OH, human rights groups and activists filed formal complaints with state boards which regulate psychologists, against Major John Leso (NY) and ret. Col. Larry James, currently dean of the School of Psychology at Wright State University in Dayton. Two of the four complainants in the Ohio case are NWOPC members: Josie Setzler and Trudy Bond. I have the privilege of co-counseling with the International Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School; some of you met Deborah Popowski from Harvard when she was out here last January.

We seek to have Ohio's Board of Psychology open a full-scale investigation into Dr. James' involvement in torture oversight, management, planning, and calibration while at Gitmo on two different stints. We are demanding that Dr. James' psychologist license be revoked based upon what we believe are not only felony crimes but extremely serious perversions of the healing art of psychology.

I invite you to read both of the complaints. They are heavily researched and meticulously footnoted. The Pentagon has been up to a lot more than is generally understood by way of torture.

Despite what our leaders may profess, U.S. directed torture continues and efforts to obtain redress for victims and accountability from perpetrators are met with systematic obstruction. We know we cannot rely on government, at any level, to take the initiative for accountability.

But we must not be bystanders.

Six years have passed since the release of the gruesome photos of torture at Abu Ghraib, and it is well past the deadline President Obama set for closing the prison camps at Guantanamo. Yet this Administration has steadfastly refused to seek accountability for U.S.-sponsored torture—the murderous extent of which is still being revealed—and invokes the “state secrets” privilege to obstruct prosecution when torture victims, some released without charge, seek legal redress.

These issues are never easy to confront. They require us to break through our denial, take in the horror, and hold it in awareness while we organize for action.