http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/25/world/asia/thailand-coup/index.html?hpt=ias_c1
Former Prime minister of Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra is now free from military custody, as she has been for the past week as apart of a planned junta. She, along with many other politicians, were ordered into custody to be apart of the "National Council for Peace and Order" on friday. They released her saying she had efficiently helped them and was now free to move around and communicate as she pleased, but a spokesperson for her said they doubted she was free to leave go places unwatched and talk to who she wanted. The junta source says that 150 people will be required to present before the junta as apart of the "National Council for Peace and Order". The Thai military has censored radio, TV, and social media could be their next move. The junta say they are just trying to tranquilize protests and quell the citizens of Thailand by figuring out what's best for them and they need successful politician's advice about what to do to bring the country's unrest at ease and to unite the citizens of Thailand.
I think the junta is doing the right thing, if that is what they are actually doing, but they are scaring everyone by doing so. I wish that the current leaders of Thailand could've reached this same idea, but if it has to be this way, let it at least be productive. They didn't have to take people hostage either, just ask them nicely because "you get more flies with honey than vinegar".
These conflicts in Thailand go back a long, long way, and are very much intertwined in the monarchy and class issues. The country really needs to start thinking about what's best for the people, not just what will benefit specific, rich and powerful people the most, and I don't think that the junta is doing anything positive for the country, in fact it may just bring them down. The junta releasing the Prime Minister or not, Thailand can't afford to have anything else disrupt their tourist industries and other large parts of their economy, especially with the disasters they've had no so long ago with the shutting down of airports, burning malls and the very tragic and unfortunate floods.
ReplyDeleteThis just may be me,but i feel there is a secret tainted secret in all of this. Something just doesn't sound right. Or perhaps, how the government is trying to fix itself doesn't seem right.
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