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www.coup.com.th

September 24th, 2006 by Andrew Walker · 4 Comments

The web site of The Council for the Democratic Reform under the Constitutional Monarchy (Thailand’s new government) is available here. There is an English language page, but with limited material.

Tags: Coup · Thailand · Thaksin

4 responses so far ↓

  • 1 XKMasada // Sep 25, 2006 at 6:40 pm

    Some observations:

    - The official translation of the junta’s name is the “Council for the Democratic Reform under the Constitutional Monarchy”. Although this isn’t really accurate: the Thai name literally is the “Council for Administrative Reform of Democracy with a Monarch as Head of State”. The Thai name does not make any pretense as to “Democratic Reform,” merely to “Reform”. The Thai name also makes no mention of the Constitution, which makes sense given that the first thing the junta did was to abrogate the Constitution.

    - The site is a .com, which means the coup is officially a commercial enterprise. That explains the recently announced 100 billion baht stimulous package, I guess :-)

  • 2 Andrew Walker // Sep 25, 2006 at 7:13 pm

    Thanks very much for all your useful and informative comments!

  • 3 XKMasada // Sep 26, 2006 at 6:06 pm

    The site claims that it is managed by the ICT Ministry. However, a DNS lookup reveals its IP as 203.78.110.25. That domain reversed back to Netway Communication, a private web hosting provider in Thailand. Thus it appears to be not legitimate.

  • 4 XKMasada // Sep 26, 2006 at 6:07 pm

    Correct official site of the junta seems to be http://www.mict.go.th/cdrc

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