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Thailand political turmoil? |
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Written by Junya Yimprasert, Coordinator of Thai Labour Campaign
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Wednesday, 08 March 2006 |
Dear friends,
The situation right now in Thailand is seem to guide to
only two solutions
at the moment; to choose between, either 'the Corrupted
Capitalist
[Thaksin] government', or requesting 'His Majesty' to appoint an
acting
prime minister’.
Not long ago, from 17-19 May 1992, hundred thousands of people in
Thailand
demonstrated against 'Coup's General Prime Ministry', 48 people
were
killed in the violence suppression by the militaries' General. In
an
exchange for him to step down, the general was amnasty and he is
still
carry high status in Thai society. The May Bloodshed leads to the
becoming
of the current National Constitution, which one of the article
stating
that "The Prime Minister" must come from election.
However, 14
years after the May Bloodshed, Thailand can be said, for the
first time,
facing with the real 'Absolute ['Corrupted' but ‘Elected’]
Capitalist Prime
Minister'. After five years of his aggressively making
profit out of his
position, we are so fed up with him, too.
Do we have no other choices
else in the democratic system, apart from this
two solutions?
It is a
big question to many of us and it seems that the current confusion
and flow
of anger toward Thaksin, open up for the conservatives and right
wing
position, which is seem that they will win.
I will send you a couple
of articles which is showing pictures of the
situation in Thailand right now.
I apologize for sending big mail, just
hope that this will help you a bit to
see how the situation in Thailand
right now is? I have written an article
from the labour activist point of
view as well, but it is in Thai and I have
no time to translate to
English.
In solidarity,
Lek
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