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...situation, making it easier to bring Russia, China and some Muslim countries on board. Surely the E.U. can agree at least about Darfur. The citizens of its member states do. John Pedler Sarlat, France Thailand's Military Takeover The past five years under the democratically elected government of Thaksin Shinawatra were a nightmare [Oct. 2]. He was a tyrant in disguise. He bought votes to pave his way to power. He and his Cabinet members destroyed the system's checks and balances, abused state power, blocked access to information and violently suppressed peaceful protests. Can you still call that democracy...
RESIGNED. Thaksin Shinawatra, 57, ousted Prime Minister of Thailand; as leader of Thai Rak Thai, the political party he founded in 1998; in London. Thai Rak Thai, once the country's dominant political force, has been hit by the resignation of dozens of party leaders since the Sept. 20 coup. In a handwritten letter faxed to party headquarters, Thaksin took responsibility for allowing the coup to happen and apologized for stepping down, saying, "I want to stress that it is necessary...
...Even before the bloodless coup that overthrew Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra last month, Thailand's growth was decelerating, in part because of rising oil prices and months of political gridlock. But the new regime will not necessarily make things worse. "The coup creates near-term uncertainty, no question," says emerging-markets expert Marc Faber, publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report. "Having said that, I don't think this will have a huge impact on the financial and manufacturing sector." In a reassuring move, the new administration tapped central-bank governor Pridiyathorn Devakula, a respected technocrat who helped extricate Thailand...
...Philippines under martial law; and another seven years earlier, a general called Suharto seized power in Indonesia. Burmese and Filipinos, in particular, know what it's like to have tanks on their streets. Why, then, do so many of them support the Thai military's overthrow of Thaksin Shinawatra? The answer says a lot about the state of politics and democracy in many Asian countries?not much of it good...
...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 and has not yet returned to Thailand. Thailand is currently under martial law but Sonthi has promised to hand over power...