Word: coups
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...worldwide for its golden Buddhist temples, is also home to millions of Muslims, most of whom live in the country's south. A religious-based insurgency there has claimed more than 2,000 lives since 2004, with some rebels calling for a separate Islamic homeland. Since Thailand's military coup last September, the violence has only gotten worse, even though the junta leader, General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, is himself a Muslim. With many of the killings involving Muslims targeting Buddhists (although plenty of Muslims have been murdered as well), it's not surprising that sentiment in usually tolerant Thailand is turning...
...also when the next general elections are due. The general depended on the judiciary's support when he came to power in 1999, but with the courts against him, he will face a struggle to remain in power. That's because despite having seized power in a military coup, he has relied on the legal and constitutional system to legitimate his authority, rather than simply ruling by decree. As Ismat Mehid, a lawyer in Karachi, put it: "The judiciary has always been the B team of the army. Now it doesn't want to be the B team. It wants...
...immediate military retribution. The same is true of Sunday's massive popular demonstration in Istanbul, which took aim not only at the AKP and fears of creeping Islamicization but also, notably, at the military and its undemocratic intervention of a few nights before. "Neither Shari'a nor a coup," chanted demonstrators. That decidedly rational, circumspect attitude toward the ideologues and opportunists now wreaking havoc offers some glimmer of hope at a time when good sense is in short supply...
...trying to defend. What happens next is unclear: a court ruling in favor of the secularists annulled the presidential nomination, but the pro-Islamic government has called early elections for this summer to try to win enough seats to force through their choice. Analysts are not ruling out a coup by Turkey's staunchly secular army if the Islamic-leaning party is returned by popular vote...
...Baghdadi and al-Masri have both been killed this week, that would certainly be a big blow to al-Qaeda. But it would not be a coup de grace. Al-Qaeda has shrugged off the death of even more important figures, including al-Zarqawi. At best, there will be a short pause while the group recalibrates itself under a new leader...