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 How did Thailand come to this?
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| PL |
Lagt på d. 19/05-2010 15:17
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Udmærket artikel på BBC's hjemmeside: http://news.bbc.c...124847.stm "Plans for elections in October were foiled by the 19 September coup in 2006. Since then, two Thaksin-allied governments have been elected and stymied by court actions, leading to the current Democrat government, elected by another vote in parliament, not a general election. " PL Redigeret af PL d. 19/05-2010 15:20 |
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| Jay |
Lagt på d. 19/05-2010 17:13
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takker One explanation is simply that a crazed rabble of poor people came to the city from the under-developed north, flauning their love for a former prime minister - Thaksin Shinawatra - and being paid to do so. Another vision talks of class war and a peoples' uprising, as the masses rise up on the barricades. The reality lies somewhere in between and can only be understood by a brisk walk through Thailand's recent political history. The 1997 economic crisis brought back the Democrats under Mr Chuan. But elections in January 2001 gave Mr Thaksin a resounding win. Mr Thaksin used this to accrue wealth and power across a range of Thai institutions. He earned a shocking human rights record and quashed the free press, but poured money into rural areas usually starved of attention. In elections in 2005 he again won by a landslide, with the highest voter turnout in Thai history. He called another, snap, election in 2006, which the Democrat opposition boycotted. His win was ruled invalid by the constitutional court on 8 May 2006. Whatever version of the recent past is chosen, neither violence nor a death-defying commitment to democracy is unusual in Thai politics.
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