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.
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.
Prayuth still faces pressure from street protests that have been demanding he step down for bungling his response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Thailand has had at best a flirting engagement with democracy and the omnipresent military has stepped in often to snatch power.
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha said a dispute over a property deal appeared to be the motive for the attack
The attackers sprayed gunfire at the checkpoints and were trying to provoke unrest in the region
It redounds to Prayuth’s credit that the faint stirrings of democracy were evident last week when he ended various restrictions on the media
