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Gunpoint Democracy

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Oct 27, 2006
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Five weeks after many of Bangkok's academics, editorialists and opposition politicians cheered the generals who ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, some are starting to have second thoughts about the ability of the generals who engineered the coup to reintroduce democracy.

Chuan Leekpai, a former prime minister and chief adviser to the longstanding…

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