Over at Inside Story Andrew and I have a follow-up to our earlier essay on what we call “Thailand’s royal sub-plot”. We argue that the sub-plot has thickened with Sondhi Limthongkul’s close shave. The full version of this most recent article is available here.
Thailand’s royal sub-plot thickens
May 6th, 2009 by Nicholas Farrelly · 3 Comments
Tags: Media · Militaries · Privy Council · Royal family · Thailand · Thaksin
3 responses so far ↓
1 amberwaves // May 8, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Re: the Third Hand/Anupong coup plot theory put forward by Manager/Sondhi-The Nation/Thanong, would any NM reader care to put forward the best possible case for such a scenario? (You don’t have to believe it, just explain it).
As far as I can see, it doesn’t even rise to the level of circumstantial. If there was such a plot, why didn’t we see blood flow in the streets of Bangkok on the day of the Red Shirt’s rioting, which surely would have be the best way to create chaos and discredit the government?
Can anyone here make, or at least explain the argument?
2 Johpa Deumlaokeng // May 10, 2009 at 10:21 am
And I thought the article on “subplot” might finally talk about the long standing and loudly rumored divisions, subplots in the plural, within the group of possible heirs to the throne. With the combinations and permutations of the Queen, the Crown Prince, and the various Princesses, only Shakespeare could do the this Palace’s intrigues justice.
3 Nudi Samsao // May 13, 2009 at 4:04 pm
“The Queen, My Lord, is dead.”‘
“She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace to the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools ways to their dustry death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets . . . . It’s a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing!”
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