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...Thai media activities or closed them down. Let the truth be told. Before he came to power, the Thai press was considered one of the freest in the world, ranking 29th in the survey done by Freedom House in 2000. During Thaksin's reign until the Sept. 19 coup, the Thai press fell to 107th last year. Similar conclusions can be found on indexes and reports by the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders. Thaksin constantly interfered with Thailand's printed and broadcast media using advertising revenues and stock acquisitions as key strategies. He shut down community radio...
...could not. For the next two decades Ghana was racked by instability and economic mismanagement. A revolving cast of military leaders left people with little faith in their government and no chance to change things. It was a cancer eating the entire continent. Beginning with the first successful coup in sub-Saharan Africa, in Togo in 1963, at least 200 attempts were made to seize power in Africa over the following four decades; 80 or so were successful. Bitter civil wars erupted, some of them tribal struggles for natural resources, some of them prompted by foreign powers. By the 1970s...
...School in 1982 and became the first Thai person to earn a doctorate in law from Harvard in 1985. As deputy prime minister, he oversaw foreign affairs, education, and culture in Thailand. He held the position for only one year before the government was overthrown by a coup d’état last fall. Kriengsak Chareonwongsak, a member of the Thai parliament who is currently a Mason fellow at the Kennedy School, said that Sathirathai played a “much more substantial role in the government” as minister of foreign affairs, a position he held...
...know what's happening on the ground. "The diplomats got along better with Qarase's people," he says. "They want business as usual-even if it's going downhill." Last month Fiji's Reserve Bank predicted the economy would shrink 2-4% this year; before the coup, it had forecast growth of 2%. Speaking the day before his government's first Budget, Bainimarama blames Qarase's team. "If the economy falls," he says, "then 2% of the fall can be attributed to the events of Dec. 5. Ninety-eight per cent is the fault of the previous government. We were...
...head scarf. In an act originally meant to symbolize liberation, a woman tears off and burns her scarf before being menaced by actors carrying ropes and knives. Meant to represent courageous defiance of obscurantism, the head-scarf-burning instead sparks a riot.Shots are fired. What one might call a coup de théâtre is staged. For three days, the continuing blizzard seals Kars off from the outside world and from the Turkish army that would restore civil order. Filled with the desire to escape Kars alive with Ipek, Ka makes love and poetry of almost painful beauty.Yet...