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Thailand’s coup by stealth

January 1st, 2008 by Andrew Walker · 35 Comments

On election night we wrote:
The central question for Thailand’s democracy is this: will the royalist-military elite that staged the September 2006 coup be willing to accept the election of Thaksin’s proxy party? Finding themselves back at square one after 15 months will be a bitter pill to swallow. Military action against the election result seems [...]

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Tags: Coup · Election Watch · Thailand