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The king’s man

October 2nd, 2006 by Andrew Walker · 1 Comment

A useful story from Asia Sentinel on Thailand’s new PM is here.

Tags: Coup · Surayud regime · Thailand

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  • 1 Patrick Jory // Oct 2, 2006 at 11:11 pm

    Great stuff. The first article I’ve read that’s called a spade a spade: a “royalist” coup.

    I’ve just seen a draft of the new Constitution from The Nation, 2 October 2006. Surprise, surprise, Article 8 of the 1997 Constitution (”the person of the king is sacred and inviolable”) has been shifted to Article 1!

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