The Nation reports (my emphasis added):
The royal command, which was announced on TV pool at 9:29 am, states that the Council for Democratic Reform staged the coup to annul the previous charter, which was full of loopholes, so that a new charter could be drafted so His Majesty approved the interim charter pending the drafting [...]
Ahh, “full of loopholes”
October 1st, 2006 by Nicholas Farrelly · 4 Comments
Tags: Thailand
Rohingyas on Nauru, part III
October 1st, 2006 by Nicholas Farrelly · 1 Comment
A spate of stories from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation late last week drew on comments from an Australian refugee lawyer and an official from the Organisation for International Migration.
They both said that the Rohingya men will all make strong claims for refugee status. The Australian government is silent on the issue. For more context see the original [...]
Tags: Burma · Trans-Border Issues
Slowly but surely…
October 1st, 2006 by Nicholas Farrelly · 1 Comment
…news of anti-coup activities is starting to seep out of Thailand. Every couple of days, we are seeing a jumbled bunch of small-scale responses. Some are, no doubt, clumsy and difficult to categorise, but others seem to have the makings of what could become a serious backlash.
Some schools have been destroyed and investigations have been ordered.
A taxi slammed in to [...]
Tags: Thailand