Word: boonyaratglin
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...analyst you quoted said, General Sonthi Boonyaratglin "is not someone with an appetite for political power." This statement captures the nature of not only the general but also of the coup itself. The coup was conducted to ensure the security and stability of Thailand, and, in doing so, to ensure [returning] power to civilians with a stronger and sounder democratic foundation. Kitti Wasinondh Director-General Department of Information Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bangkok...
...Thailand's 18th coup d'?tat since 1932, bloodless for a change, and its leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin was at pains to present it as the kindest, cuddliest one yet?a "soft coup," it's being called. While smiling Thais handed flowers to soldiers, their Asian neighbors had more somber anniversaries to consider. Eighteen years to the day before the Thai coup, Burmese soldiers shot dead hundreds of prodemocracy protesters in Rangoon; 16 years before that, late dictator Ferdinand Marcos put the Philippines under martial law; and another seven years earlier, a general called Suharto seized power in Indonesia. Burmese...
...Thai people wait to see whether their country’s military returns power to a civilian government by next week—following a coup there last Tuesday—undergraduates from Thailand and student organizations planning trips there are tracking the ongoing political developments. General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, the leader of a new party calling itself the Democratic Reform Council, last week overthrew Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, leader of the populist Thai Rak Thai party. Thaksin, who at the time was in New York to address the U.N. General Assembly, declared a state of emergency...