Coup talk in Thailand 2012

Nicholas Farrelly - 14 Jun, 2012

Wassana Nanuam is a prolific writer on Thai military topics. A 2009 book review by Craig Reynolds provides good insights about her work.

In today’s Bangkok Post Wassana has an analysis of the prospects for a coup in Thailand that will be of interest to many New Mandala readers.

I think the key point comes in the final stanza:

Although Gen Prayuth and Gen Tanasak have guaranteed there will be no coup, nobody is so sure that the Sept 19, 2006 putsch will be the last one. One certainty is that the next coup, if it happens, will not be pulled off so easily and the outcome will not be quite so rosy.

And I can see how the outcome may “not be quite so rosy”. I guess the question is: for whom?

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Nicholas Farrelly
Dr Nicholas Farrelly is the co-founder of New Mandala. A graduate of the Australian National University and the University of Oxford, over the past 20 years he has undertaken research in Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, China and India. Nicholas is Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania and formerly the Associate Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University, where he also led the ANU Myanmar Research Centre from 2015 to 2017.
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