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Prayuth Chan-ocha

Thai instability

It is hard not to wonder whether the current move to suspend his authority is embedded in the coup that he had spearheaded in 2014.

Turmoil in Thailand

Thailand has had at best a flirting engagement with democracy and the omnipresent military has stepped in often to snatch power.

The Thai facade

It redounds to Prayuth’s credit that the faint stirrings of democracy were evident last week when he ended various restrictions on the media