I too am an Australian living and working in Thailand. I do not doubt for a moment the efforts His Majesty has made with regard to bettering the life of the Thai people. My question to you is this. Had a large proportion of Australians been effectively disenfranchised from the political sustem for years, then chose to demonstrate, which then turned violent, do you believe the Australian Army would have responded to the same extent on say..the streets of Melbourne or Sysdney? My heart goes out to all who lost their lives…including Thai soldiers. The images are graphic….thats what happens when people shoot each other. I have my own thoughts re the palace but I’m not prepared to voice them. Of course, the chances of Australian demonsrators getting access to grenade launchers and the like are next to nill. How is it that such armaments are so freely available here. Military, symapthetic to the red shirt cause? blackmarket? whatever. The total lack of any kind of credibility within both the military and the police force together with endemic corruption speaks volumes about the notion of the application of the rule of law and issues of equity. Furthermore one really does have to ask the question…If the palace has so much influence in Thailand, how is it that after such a long reign, whilst some agricultural projects etc. have benefited, the social inequities have never been addressed and are now worse than ever.
I wholeheartedly agree with michael. My daughter is currently in form 5 at “that” (the high school to go to) in Nontharburi.
Only one teacher (Thai French teacher) inspires her to try harder, the rest are there because they were appointed by the education department.
The so-called head English teacher (Thai)(International program)(appointed by the education department) cannot even speak English properly, let alone write it. The English exams she composes are written in Thailish and she refuses to heed the words of the “farang” English teachers and has threatened them with dismissal for interfering in the Thai education system.
The whole system is morally and ethically bankrupt with parents being openly asked for “tea money”. Students are treated like a soccer match; they being the players and the teachers the referees and of course the parents as the paying supporters. And pay they do as yellow and red cards are passed out willy-nilly for the slightest infraction against the childish rules. (Haircuts, dress, missing the morning 45 minutes of assembly where they are lectured on morals and ethics; it is never about education or their grades).
It is no longer about educating the children, it is about power, who has it and who doesn’t. It’s about intimidation and the class system, and it reeks of government and education ministry propaganda.
On a final disparaging note, there was a video, that all the students had on there cell phones; it showed a young form 2 Thai girl dressed in girl guide uniform being raped by a boy in boy scout uniform and being held by two other girls in guide uniform. No action has ever been taken.
I am disgusted with the Thai education system.
Roger
Very well comment, let me add a bit about IMF. The IMF although provided cheap loan for a nation in need, they are far from the do gooder loan the anti-Thaksin camp trying to paint it to be. The loan came with the strict fiscal policy control and other sort of government pay cut which some of the policy has even been proven failure during the 1932 economic crisis. By repaying those loan, Thailand was able to have more freedom with her spending and monetary policy, thus, the economic expansion during 2003-2005 wouldn’t be possible if those loan hadn’t been paid back.
I trust that your “hope” re. proxy server was made en passant. The fact is, the more proxy servers we have the better off we will all be. And it is not our business to prosecute those who use them. Legal or not, they are meant for private and certainly, in today’s world, justified use.
FYI also use a history eraser program so no one can tell what sites you have been visiting.
Portmann #6
Education: During the Thaksin period students without money were allowed to take up a school-loan conditioned to reimbursement by small installments once the studies completed and a first job found. Besides that, the gains of the national lottery financed one student with excellent school-results per district to continue his studies abroad.
When Thaksin was overthrown by the illegal coup, these students abroad were called home and the local students which had benefited of a loan had to reimburse immediately If they tried to make legal opposition to this decision they went directly to prison. As of course no bank (and certainly not the king’s ones) refinanced such loans, people had to take up money through the local mafia and/or rich local people, at high interest rates, so they impoverished even further local populations.
These reimbursed funds were utilized by the queen to finance the film “Suriyothai” to show how the royal family is good and fights for the country!!
If now education is again free, the children have to buy uniforms made by factories owned by the ruler’s cronies. The students are not allowed to annotate their exercise books; they have to be returned in immaculate condition. All other school material has to be bought. As the since 2006 worsened situation makes it difficult to find adequate jobs, the families become more and more impoverished. In fact, education is again only for the rich.
War: I didn’t say the Army wanted to escalate the war in the South but they want the war going on, keep the water in the kettle stirring because it’s an extraordinary source of income, financed also by a secret budget which goes directly into the pockets of the leaders. Besides that, is an easy way to eliminate soldiers who ask too much questions, look at the death tolls and the origin of the killed ones. I know from highly trained anti-drug unities which were eradicated within a few weeks despite having longstanding experience of the drug war in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. But they knew which army echelon was taking how much and why the drug factories they took out in the jungle were mostly chickenfeed.
Look closer to the maps and you will see what military experts can confirm, i.e. the real war zone is relatively small (no comparison with the Swat Valley), only one road on which to patrol, all mined and exploding regularly on Bangkok’s orders.
Buy voters: In the North, e.g. in Chiangmai, Thaksin had not to pay; they voted anyway for him anyway, they even told him in the villages, not to make “unnecessary” expenses.
IMF: the fact is, that Thaksin repaid so well in advance that he could fill up the countries reserves and teach some people how to export and conquer new markets. But one of his important projects, the exploitation of petrol near Kho Kong, jointly with Cambodia, was of course immediately canceled.
The king takes a tax free 85% kick of the Gulf of Siam’s petrol, the country keeps only 15% (e.e. in Brunei and in Saudi Arabia it’s the other way round). The first action of the Army coup and the present puppet government was to check how to fill their own pockets, by unnecessary expenses: e.g. the Thai Luftwaffe bought Swedish Grippen, not the best fighter but renowned for paying the highest kickback. And the king has received a new Boeing, nobody knows to what purpose as he has not left the country for 60. years. It’s probably for the Dauphin to play with. No important investment in infrastructure has been made or finished since.
Airport: at least they built one which was a project for 40 years. So what, if there was a cut, the preceding ones took millions of bath without of course any result during 40 years.
Repression: as long as there is a lese-majesté law which sends you to jail for 10-15 years without proper judgment, you are in a totalitarian and repressive state. There is no democratic state that reacts like Thailand; its at least as dangerous as in Putin-Russia publish cartoons, or to discuss critically the Beloved and Great Immortal Leader.
Forget the idiotic knee-jerk reaction of Simon #5; Stuart Goddard #3 is right on the mark, particularly in his comments about education. Actually, I would say, having visited well over 100 educational institutions of all levels from Anuban (kindergarten) to tertiary, and taught at every level, through to post-grad (as I have done in Australia, including extensive teacher-training), that his assertion that ” It will take removal or retraining of 80% of teachers in Thailand because they are largely incompetent to teach,” is rather on the conservative side. I would say that all Thai teachers should be given the option of early retirement or retraining. And salaries should be raised to realistic & attractive levels.
As to who should do the training, that is problematic; teacher-training institutions do not have sufficient competently trained staff. (And where they do have staff who are capable, these people are usually ham-strung by cultural restraints, e.g. Kreng jai.) In order to get them, scholarships to overseas institutions would be necessary. Further, the staff at these institutions would need to be thoroughly briefed about the existing education culture in Thailand, so that they could assist in destroying the elements within it which are counter-productive.
A further problem is the enormous corruption within the Ministry of Education. There is no point in budgeting vast sums of money for retraining if 40% of the budget is going to disappear, or in bringing in an exam system for the trainees if they can buy pass-marks.
Perhaps a complete overhauling of Education could be funded by cutting the military budget & lowering the number of military personnel, not only the absurd number of generals, but all levels. Does a country that has only minimal real threats from outside really need a huge elaborately equipped army? What has the military done in living memory, except slaughter Thai citizens and engage in other criminal activities?
The government is not obliged to listen to anything that Gi Ungpakorn says or to respond to him in any way. No more than they must to me or to you or to any other individual.
They have the choice to ignore him. They have the choice to respond to him.
And they also have the ability to censor him.
They have chosen the censorship option.
On the other hand, because the government does not allow me to read what he has to say, I cannot judge whether he is speaking “nonsense” or not.
I am deemed instead to be a child in need of protection from his dangerous ideas.
Ji Ungpakorn was charged with LM. He was not charged with having “a style of presentation”. I hope you don’t think that we should be prevented from saying something because we don’t have the right style of presentation.
StanG, what is your attitude to censorship? It seems to me that you believe “nonsense”, improper “styles of presentation”, and “repetitive arguments” should be banned.
Both of us and most of us could be criticized on these grounds. I would not censor you for them.
How do you engage someone in a meaningful discussion by censoring them?
In a democracy with free speech, nobody has to listen to anybody. But we are obliged to let them say what they want with certain exceptions which we could discuss. You can criticize Ji for his unreasonable arguments as much as you like. That is your prerogative.
You do not have the prerogative of defining for all of us what is acceptable or sensible. The government does have that prerogative but we should insist that they explain themselves fully and justify what they do.
How come no one mentions Thaksin financing the red shirts and the pro Thaksin businessmen that got their bank accounts frozen by the government because they were channeling Thaksin’s money to the redshirts for Thaksin? How come no one talks about when the soldiers were told not to shoot and the red shirt stole the police tanks and guns and beat up several soldiers and even killed them during the cease fire order. How come no one talks about the weapons Thaksin’s military buddy funneled to the red shirt to use against the police and military? Peaceful Protest Not Terrorist my Heineken! If this was a corruption protest, they first need to loose the red shirts they are wearing.
Rose shocked me and Stuart’s reply is really harsh. Farangs and Thais are alike. We are all human who can be both virtuous and malicious. It’s personal and not racial.
Also, Thais do indeed benefit from Farangs’ capital and technology however, I am certain that we have paid back more than what we took. Perhaps, one of the determinants to this chaos could also be that we did not implement the Western ideology appropriately but then who else can be blamed but ourselves!
Jim Taylor. Does that mean that the Walloon government is allowing FN Herstal to sell arms to Thaksin instead?
Personally, I would recommend he stick to AK47s, M79 grenade launchers and bon fai rockets. FN makes some nice modern weaponry these days but revolutionaries are better off with the more basic type of weapons that are easy to use and maintain. An AK47 can be buried in the mud for months and still fire OK when dug up. It is a bit heavier than an M16 but also less temperamental and the folding stock version used by the red guards, as displayed by CRES, is ideal for concealment. M79 grenade launchers are also easy to maintain and use and a serviceable version can be knocked up in a vocational college workshop.
Didn’t notice the Thai army using any FN weapons in the crackdown, so I don’t suppose the suspension of contracts will greatly affect their riot control effectiveness.
refer to the question my answer is
1.What next for the Thai military?
Ans. absolute power is thai army target.
2.What next for the Democrat Party?
A. Every Democrat want < You Got it.
3.What next for lese majeste prosecutions?
ANS: No comment.
4.What next for Thailand’s education system?
Ans: More Bachelor Drgree but no Quality
5. What next for the privy council?
ANS: lack of reliable in Thai People
6.What next for the families of those who have been killed and injured in recent political violence?
Ans: sunk in a pain and neglec from This governmaent and Reveange after
7.What next for former Prime Minister Thaksin?
Ans: Everything can happen inThailand , The wrong man is Mr. Taksin ( Easy to solve a problem in Thailand ) He is a sin Goats in Thailand )
8.What next for General Anupong?
Ans : Retire on 30 SEP and Nothing quillty
9. What next for Issan?
Ans: High society and Middle class in Thailand blame Issan people is lack of Knowledge and need some a little money from local Politician and Taksin ( Sad Movie for almost This people coz They are a nice people )
10. What next for Thai foreign policy?
Ans: Catch Taksin everywhere in the world if i can ( Economy i don"t care , national relatioship i don' t interest becacuse i need Taksin so much ) He is bad guy and terrorism ( In case of Thai government and hi -so class , Thai army Leader view s but not all Thai People )
10.What next for Newin Chidchob?
Ans : Everything i do i do is for you ( Power )
11. What next for the Red shirt “hardliners”?
Ans: Jail only ( More Than 10 years)
12.What next for academic research about Thailand?
Ans : Hang on The shelves but No Action
13.What next for the Centre for the Resolution of Emergency Situations?
Ans : Gone with the wind and no guilty
14.What next for the Thai media?
Ans: Most of them choose Yellow shirts and no Ethics , no profestional in carreer.
I think it is imperative that the role and existence of the Royal Family, from individually the King to the entire monarchy system and its influence, goes hand in hand with the action of the military.
If some form of that relationship exists, does the general population of Thailand see that? From the rural workers to the city dwellers (and not just bangkok residents).
Q: What next for memories of political violence and social conflict?
Ten years from now, twenty years from now, these memories will be remembered several groups of people and will be lost amongst the most. These memories will be inserted in primary school / secondary school history textbooks (authorised by The Ministry of Education) with the only purpose – to remember something and forget the rest. This is similar to what happen to the memories of the “Boworndej Rebellion” (1934), “14 Oct 1973 Student Uprising”, “6 Oct 1976 Massacre at Thammasat University (and its aftermath)” and “Dark May 1992.” For me, what’s very pathetic is that history repeats itself, always.
What’s next for Thailand:
here below some thoughts which seem to have been censured in Thailand as “dangerous” but have been published by today’s Sydney Morning Herald
I’m in a hotel in central Bangkok (off Sukhumvit), using their connection. Can access all NM content through a bookmark, but couldn’t click on Nicholas’ link above – got the red censorship banner. ISP seems to be Loxley Information Services (Loxinfo).
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On Bhumibolists and Royalists
If not yet clear my #7, #16 and #24, the ideology of the Reds, for the benefit of its New Mandala cheerers, could be summed up in three words:
Burn Bangkok Burn
Right?
A chance for peace?
Sarah
I too am an Australian living and working in Thailand. I do not doubt for a moment the efforts His Majesty has made with regard to bettering the life of the Thai people. My question to you is this. Had a large proportion of Australians been effectively disenfranchised from the political sustem for years, then chose to demonstrate, which then turned violent, do you believe the Australian Army would have responded to the same extent on say..the streets of Melbourne or Sysdney? My heart goes out to all who lost their lives…including Thai soldiers. The images are graphic….thats what happens when people shoot each other. I have my own thoughts re the palace but I’m not prepared to voice them. Of course, the chances of Australian demonsrators getting access to grenade launchers and the like are next to nill. How is it that such armaments are so freely available here. Military, symapthetic to the red shirt cause? blackmarket? whatever. The total lack of any kind of credibility within both the military and the police force together with endemic corruption speaks volumes about the notion of the application of the rule of law and issues of equity. Furthermore one really does have to ask the question…If the palace has so much influence in Thailand, how is it that after such a long reign, whilst some agricultural projects etc. have benefited, the social inequities have never been addressed and are now worse than ever.
New Mandala “temporarily curtailed”?
In Chiang Mai via 3BB & TOT I cannot access this page directly but can via:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=af&tl=en&u=http://www.newmandala.org/2010/05/21/new-mandala-temporarily-curtailed/
What next for Thailand?
I wholeheartedly agree with michael. My daughter is currently in form 5 at “that” (the high school to go to) in Nontharburi.
Only one teacher (Thai French teacher) inspires her to try harder, the rest are there because they were appointed by the education department.
The so-called head English teacher (Thai)(International program)(appointed by the education department) cannot even speak English properly, let alone write it. The English exams she composes are written in Thailish and she refuses to heed the words of the “farang” English teachers and has threatened them with dismissal for interfering in the Thai education system.
The whole system is morally and ethically bankrupt with parents being openly asked for “tea money”. Students are treated like a soccer match; they being the players and the teachers the referees and of course the parents as the paying supporters. And pay they do as yellow and red cards are passed out willy-nilly for the slightest infraction against the childish rules. (Haircuts, dress, missing the morning 45 minutes of assembly where they are lectured on morals and ethics; it is never about education or their grades).
It is no longer about educating the children, it is about power, who has it and who doesn’t. It’s about intimidation and the class system, and it reeks of government and education ministry propaganda.
On a final disparaging note, there was a video, that all the students had on there cell phones; it showed a young form 2 Thai girl dressed in girl guide uniform being raped by a boy in boy scout uniform and being held by two other girls in guide uniform. No action has ever been taken.
I am disgusted with the Thai education system.
Roger
Ambassador Kriangsak in the SMH
u_chemp – 16
Very well comment, let me add a bit about IMF. The IMF although provided cheap loan for a nation in need, they are far from the do gooder loan the anti-Thaksin camp trying to paint it to be. The loan came with the strict fiscal policy control and other sort of government pay cut which some of the policy has even been proven failure during the 1932 economic crisis. By repaying those loan, Thailand was able to have more freedom with her spending and monetary policy, thus, the economic expansion during 2003-2005 wouldn’t be possible if those loan hadn’t been paid back.
A chance for peace?
I trust that your “hope” re. proxy server was made en passant. The fact is, the more proxy servers we have the better off we will all be. And it is not our business to prosecute those who use them. Legal or not, they are meant for private and certainly, in today’s world, justified use.
FYI also use a history eraser program so no one can tell what sites you have been visiting.
Ambassador Kriangsak in the SMH
Portmann #6
Education: During the Thaksin period students without money were allowed to take up a school-loan conditioned to reimbursement by small installments once the studies completed and a first job found. Besides that, the gains of the national lottery financed one student with excellent school-results per district to continue his studies abroad.
When Thaksin was overthrown by the illegal coup, these students abroad were called home and the local students which had benefited of a loan had to reimburse immediately If they tried to make legal opposition to this decision they went directly to prison. As of course no bank (and certainly not the king’s ones) refinanced such loans, people had to take up money through the local mafia and/or rich local people, at high interest rates, so they impoverished even further local populations.
These reimbursed funds were utilized by the queen to finance the film “Suriyothai” to show how the royal family is good and fights for the country!!
If now education is again free, the children have to buy uniforms made by factories owned by the ruler’s cronies. The students are not allowed to annotate their exercise books; they have to be returned in immaculate condition. All other school material has to be bought. As the since 2006 worsened situation makes it difficult to find adequate jobs, the families become more and more impoverished. In fact, education is again only for the rich.
War: I didn’t say the Army wanted to escalate the war in the South but they want the war going on, keep the water in the kettle stirring because it’s an extraordinary source of income, financed also by a secret budget which goes directly into the pockets of the leaders. Besides that, is an easy way to eliminate soldiers who ask too much questions, look at the death tolls and the origin of the killed ones. I know from highly trained anti-drug unities which were eradicated within a few weeks despite having longstanding experience of the drug war in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. But they knew which army echelon was taking how much and why the drug factories they took out in the jungle were mostly chickenfeed.
Look closer to the maps and you will see what military experts can confirm, i.e. the real war zone is relatively small (no comparison with the Swat Valley), only one road on which to patrol, all mined and exploding regularly on Bangkok’s orders.
Buy voters: In the North, e.g. in Chiangmai, Thaksin had not to pay; they voted anyway for him anyway, they even told him in the villages, not to make “unnecessary” expenses.
IMF: the fact is, that Thaksin repaid so well in advance that he could fill up the countries reserves and teach some people how to export and conquer new markets. But one of his important projects, the exploitation of petrol near Kho Kong, jointly with Cambodia, was of course immediately canceled.
The king takes a tax free 85% kick of the Gulf of Siam’s petrol, the country keeps only 15% (e.e. in Brunei and in Saudi Arabia it’s the other way round). The first action of the Army coup and the present puppet government was to check how to fill their own pockets, by unnecessary expenses: e.g. the Thai Luftwaffe bought Swedish Grippen, not the best fighter but renowned for paying the highest kickback. And the king has received a new Boeing, nobody knows to what purpose as he has not left the country for 60. years. It’s probably for the Dauphin to play with. No important investment in infrastructure has been made or finished since.
Airport: at least they built one which was a project for 40 years. So what, if there was a cut, the preceding ones took millions of bath without of course any result during 40 years.
Repression: as long as there is a lese-majesté law which sends you to jail for 10-15 years without proper judgment, you are in a totalitarian and repressive state. There is no democratic state that reacts like Thailand; its at least as dangerous as in Putin-Russia publish cartoons, or to discuss critically the Beloved and Great Immortal Leader.
On Bhumibolists and Royalists
@Rose nr. 15
This is our burden:-). Excellent grammar by the way.
What next for Thailand?
Forget the idiotic knee-jerk reaction of Simon #5; Stuart Goddard #3 is right on the mark, particularly in his comments about education. Actually, I would say, having visited well over 100 educational institutions of all levels from Anuban (kindergarten) to tertiary, and taught at every level, through to post-grad (as I have done in Australia, including extensive teacher-training), that his assertion that ” It will take removal or retraining of 80% of teachers in Thailand because they are largely incompetent to teach,” is rather on the conservative side. I would say that all Thai teachers should be given the option of early retirement or retraining. And salaries should be raised to realistic & attractive levels.
As to who should do the training, that is problematic; teacher-training institutions do not have sufficient competently trained staff. (And where they do have staff who are capable, these people are usually ham-strung by cultural restraints, e.g. Kreng jai.) In order to get them, scholarships to overseas institutions would be necessary. Further, the staff at these institutions would need to be thoroughly briefed about the existing education culture in Thailand, so that they could assist in destroying the elements within it which are counter-productive.
A further problem is the enormous corruption within the Ministry of Education. There is no point in budgeting vast sums of money for retraining if 40% of the budget is going to disappear, or in bringing in an exam system for the trainees if they can buy pass-marks.
Perhaps a complete overhauling of Education could be funded by cutting the military budget & lowering the number of military personnel, not only the absurd number of generals, but all levels. Does a country that has only minimal real threats from outside really need a huge elaborately equipped army? What has the military done in living memory, except slaughter Thai citizens and engage in other criminal activities?
Giles Ungpakorn on asset seizures, etc
That’s a completely ridiculous statement, StanG.
The government is not obliged to listen to anything that Gi Ungpakorn says or to respond to him in any way. No more than they must to me or to you or to any other individual.
They have the choice to ignore him. They have the choice to respond to him.
And they also have the ability to censor him.
They have chosen the censorship option.
On the other hand, because the government does not allow me to read what he has to say, I cannot judge whether he is speaking “nonsense” or not.
I am deemed instead to be a child in need of protection from his dangerous ideas.
Ji Ungpakorn was charged with LM. He was not charged with having “a style of presentation”. I hope you don’t think that we should be prevented from saying something because we don’t have the right style of presentation.
StanG, what is your attitude to censorship? It seems to me that you believe “nonsense”, improper “styles of presentation”, and “repetitive arguments” should be banned.
Both of us and most of us could be criticized on these grounds. I would not censor you for them.
How do you engage someone in a meaningful discussion by censoring them?
In a democracy with free speech, nobody has to listen to anybody. But we are obliged to let them say what they want with certain exceptions which we could discuss. You can criticize Ji for his unreasonable arguments as much as you like. That is your prerogative.
You do not have the prerogative of defining for all of us what is acceptable or sensible. The government does have that prerogative but we should insist that they explain themselves fully and justify what they do.
They have not done so.
20 May 1992
How come no one mentions Thaksin financing the red shirts and the pro Thaksin businessmen that got their bank accounts frozen by the government because they were channeling Thaksin’s money to the redshirts for Thaksin? How come no one talks about when the soldiers were told not to shoot and the red shirt stole the police tanks and guns and beat up several soldiers and even killed them during the cease fire order. How come no one talks about the weapons Thaksin’s military buddy funneled to the red shirt to use against the police and military? Peaceful Protest Not Terrorist my Heineken! If this was a corruption protest, they first need to loose the red shirts they are wearing.
On Bhumibolists and Royalists
Rose shocked me and Stuart’s reply is really harsh. Farangs and Thais are alike. We are all human who can be both virtuous and malicious. It’s personal and not racial.
Also, Thais do indeed benefit from Farangs’ capital and technology however, I am certain that we have paid back more than what we took. Perhaps, one of the determinants to this chaos could also be that we did not implement the Western ideology appropriately but then who else can be blamed but ourselves!
London discussion of Thailand’s political turmoil
Jim Taylor. Does that mean that the Walloon government is allowing FN Herstal to sell arms to Thaksin instead?
Personally, I would recommend he stick to AK47s, M79 grenade launchers and bon fai rockets. FN makes some nice modern weaponry these days but revolutionaries are better off with the more basic type of weapons that are easy to use and maintain. An AK47 can be buried in the mud for months and still fire OK when dug up. It is a bit heavier than an M16 but also less temperamental and the folding stock version used by the red guards, as displayed by CRES, is ideal for concealment. M79 grenade launchers are also easy to maintain and use and a serviceable version can be knocked up in a vocational college workshop.
Didn’t notice the Thai army using any FN weapons in the crackdown, so I don’t suppose the suspension of contracts will greatly affect their riot control effectiveness.
What next for Thailand?
refer to the question my answer is
1.What next for the Thai military?
Ans. absolute power is thai army target.
2.What next for the Democrat Party?
A. Every Democrat want < You Got it.
3.What next for lese majeste prosecutions?
ANS: No comment.
4.What next for Thailand’s education system?
Ans: More Bachelor Drgree but no Quality
5. What next for the privy council?
ANS: lack of reliable in Thai People
6.What next for the families of those who have been killed and injured in recent political violence?
Ans: sunk in a pain and neglec from This governmaent and Reveange after
7.What next for former Prime Minister Thaksin?
Ans: Everything can happen inThailand , The wrong man is Mr. Taksin ( Easy to solve a problem in Thailand ) He is a sin Goats in Thailand )
8.What next for General Anupong?
Ans : Retire on 30 SEP and Nothing quillty
9. What next for Issan?
Ans: High society and Middle class in Thailand blame Issan people is lack of Knowledge and need some a little money from local Politician and Taksin ( Sad Movie for almost This people coz They are a nice people )
10. What next for Thai foreign policy?
Ans: Catch Taksin everywhere in the world if i can ( Economy i don"t care , national relatioship i don' t interest becacuse i need Taksin so much ) He is bad guy and terrorism ( In case of Thai government and hi -so class , Thai army Leader view s but not all Thai People )
10.What next for Newin Chidchob?
Ans : Everything i do i do is for you ( Power )
11. What next for the Red shirt “hardliners”?
Ans: Jail only ( More Than 10 years)
12.What next for academic research about Thailand?
Ans : Hang on The shelves but No Action
13.What next for the Centre for the Resolution of Emergency Situations?
Ans : Gone with the wind and no guilty
14.What next for the Thai media?
Ans: Most of them choose Yellow shirts and no Ethics , no profestional in carreer.
What next for Thailand?
I think it is imperative that the role and existence of the Royal Family, from individually the King to the entire monarchy system and its influence, goes hand in hand with the action of the military.
If some form of that relationship exists, does the general population of Thailand see that? From the rural workers to the city dwellers (and not just bangkok residents).
What next for Thailand?
According to face book society in Thailand : Next step for Thai government is to control CNN! …Watch out CNN! Abhisit is going to get ya.
What next for Thailand?
Q: What next for memories of political violence and social conflict?
Ten years from now, twenty years from now, these memories will be remembered several groups of people and will be lost amongst the most. These memories will be inserted in primary school / secondary school history textbooks (authorised by The Ministry of Education) with the only purpose – to remember something and forget the rest. This is similar to what happen to the memories of the “Boworndej Rebellion” (1934), “14 Oct 1973 Student Uprising”, “6 Oct 1976 Massacre at Thammasat University (and its aftermath)” and “Dark May 1992.” For me, what’s very pathetic is that history repeats itself, always.
A chance for peace?
Thank you Sarah (c. 29) for that information.
However, I was only able to access one of the two wikipedia references that you cite.
One of them keeps returning “Not found” messages.
I do hope you are not illegally using a proxy server to access this information.
What next for Thailand?
What’s next for Thailand:
here below some thoughts which seem to have been censured in Thailand as “dangerous” but have been published by today’s Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/monarchy-at-a-turning-point-20100521-w1pb.html
New Mandala “temporarily curtailed”?
I’m in a hotel in central Bangkok (off Sukhumvit), using their connection. Can access all NM content through a bookmark, but couldn’t click on Nicholas’ link above – got the red censorship banner. ISP seems to be Loxley Information Services (Loxinfo).