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...Thaksin Effect Shame on your interview with Thaksin Shinawatra [Feb. 12]. TIME allowed Thaksin to tell lies. Thaksin has the audacity to say that the Thai press printed "groundless information" about him and that he "never intervened" in 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...
...Five years of progress under Thaksin has been ruined by five months of the junta's incompetence. This fact alone engraves Thaksin permanently in millions of Thai hearts, regardless of censorship and the prejudices of the local media. Varodom Toochinda Bangkok...
...visiting scholar at Harvard Law School’s European Law Research Center, according to spokesman Michael A. Armini, who added that Sathirathai will not have a teaching appointment. Sathirathai received a master’s degree from the Law 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...
...junta gave for moving tanks onto the streets, the process of bringing charges against the former P.M. through an investigation by the Assets Scrutiny Committee-a team handpicked by the coup leaders-has been slow. Despite the criticisms of the CNS, Sonthi, 60, still commands support from many Thais, not least because of his reputation as an incorruptible soldier in a country where both politicians and military brass have been accused of illegally profiting from their positions. In his conversation with TIME, the general defended the coup as the only way to stabilize Thailand, and vowed that, unlike previous Thai...
...TIME: What did the Thaksin administration do to violate this royal character of Thai democracy? SONTHI: It is a very sensitive question. There are many cases in which the previous government was impolite to the royal family and to the King himself. The Thai people cannot and will not tolerate anybody who shows even slight disrespect to the King or his family...