When Loyalty Demands Dissent: Sulak Sivaraksa and the Charge of Lese Majeste in Siam 1991 �C 1993. Anyone who knows Thailand well would know of Sulak Sivaraksa, social activist, political commentator, mentor to idealistic students, intellectual, Buddhist scholar, and all-around gadfly.  A diehard "iamese," whose loyalty to Thai history and tradition is paramount to personal safety considerations, Sulak has time and again found himself in trouble with the government and the military for his outspokenness.  This volume is a collection of national and international press cuttings, articles, interviews and petitions published in 1993 in association with his ongoing  trial for lese majeste..