What the Thai coup was really about
It’s beginning to sink in now in Bangkok that the September 19 military coup which ousted Thaksin Shinawatra just a few months before elections was not really about corruption or democracy or rule of law. Nor was it, as some have claimed, a “different” (somehow more virtuous) coup.
As with US President George W. Bush and the Iraq invasion, slowly the jus…
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