no demonstrations against the THAI ARMY n MARTIAL LAW imposed at all
this clearly shows that Thaksin is not popular at all
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2006-09-20 08:42:48 · 6 answers · asked by shishimhbgvf 2 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Thailand
Why? His family made 40,000,000,000 Thai Baht on a tax free sale of his family's communication company to Singapore, his sister has been accused of fraud in business conducted in teh construction of the new airport and so was his brother in law. For a people who get along with others, the problems in Southern Thailand have not been resolved with the heavy hand he had been wielding with the military. And during his reign the 2001 anti corruption law was passed and has yet to capture a big fish. Yet, the corruption in his government keeps showing up in the news. People who live in glass houses should not throw rocks. Apparently also there was a Anti-Thaksin rally scheduled for today. I believe the martial law was cancelled today. And for the King Bhomibol to endorse Sondthi almost immediately was the great thing. His supporters are the farmers and peasant folk whose vote was basically bought by loan concessions and other incentives, they are barely surviving, they cannot take the time to demonstrate. The demonstrators are your middle class that know and understand what is going on.
2006-09-20 10:28:29 · answer #1 · answered by gbdelta1954 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thaksin real supporters by and large are confined in the rural areas. In almost all the big cities across the country especially in Bangkok its populace are essentially hardcore anti-Thaksin. That explains why the coup was peaceful, popular and most importantly bloodless. I don't suppose the rural folks in remote areas are capable of coordinating any concerted and well organise demonstrations in any part of the country. If there are any demonstration, most likely it will be pretty subdue in nature and size and the military on hand will swiftly come in and crush it down hardly. I don't foreseen any big disturbances. In fact a smooth transition of full recovery of demoncracy is on the cards.
Long Live the KING!
2006-09-20 22:15:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hec was very corrupt.
There is no problem. This is good for Thailand. Here's a letter from Thailand today
'When my wife finally stopped singing and dancing around with our son at 7.45am this morning, she shouted out "Damn good!"
a) few people outside Thailand really know how Taksin has so cleverly usurped, benefitted from financial corruption instead of tackling it, bought up enormous tracts of his own country in areas of future development, bought foreign homes while barring foreigners from doing the same here, sued every major media outlet that criticised him and done NOTHING for the poor, and especially the hilltribes. Smiled at foreigners while restricting visas even further and pursuing policies which may ultimately be seen to be xenophobic. Full of promises and no delivery. Even his home city Chiangmai has waited a year in vain for his promised 53m baht to tackle flooding.
b) yes, he was democratically elected. The second time. Like another western premier we could name. At the first one he bought his way in with the "million baht per village" offer. That turned out to be a loan, not a gift of course, but it did the trick. Literally!
c) In my personal view this bloodless coup would not have taken place so smoothly, if at all, without the tacit consent of His Majesty. Maybe the writing was on the wall days ago? It is reported that Taksin took his whole family to the UN conference - unprecedented.
d) Dancing in the streets? Well there should be wherever thinking people are to be found (ie mainly in Bangkok). What we have in the streets here are lots of armoured personnel carriers and soldiers with rifles slung, looking a little bored and confused. But they don't mind having their photos taken as I proved on the way into the office this morning. Not allowed to talk, though, and many don't know what is happening.
e) Next? One of many responsible comments by General Sonthi was that the army would not hang on to power for very long. A coalition government, maybe with the promising young Democrat Abhisit to the fore, could be great!
f) We live in quite exciting times, but feel totally safe and very curious about the spin-off effects. Prayerfully this can only be good for Thailand!'
2006-09-21 00:44:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
before the coup happened,there was 2 side of demonstration ,one a demonstration for anti thaksin,and the other one demonstration for support him.
but the news always presented only the demonstration for anti him.
tv,news paper didn't support thaksin 'cause they are friend of
"sonthi limthonggul". sonthi limthonggul,he is the owner of one big news paper in thailand,so he's so powerful in media communication. and he made the anti-thaksin demonstration happened,so he can deal with all tv,and news paper to present the news about this demonstration,only on his side,the anti-thaksin side.
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this year is a year for celebrate for diamond jubilee for our king,that we want a peaceful year.
if we do a demonstration anti for the army,it will be the big fight after, nobody want that.
it's not true that thakisn has so few supporters. he has lots of millions people voted and support him.
i'm from bangkok,and all of my family love thaksin,we voted for him.
2006-09-23 13:02:26 · answer #4 · answered by kikk 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not because he is not popular but he is so MEAN...
2006-09-20 16:08:48 · answer #5 · answered by Linda 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because of corruption
2006-09-23 17:27:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋