52 minuter sedan, skrev leifen:
Är ingen som tillskrivit kuppen och juntan en uppgång i Thailands ekonomi utan det ät bara ett konstaterande att befolkningen och näringsliv samt omvärlden inte bryr sig om vem som styr.
Allt rullar på som vanligt och stabilitet i ett land värdesätts mer.
Allt är inte negativt som du påstår utan mycket fungerar till och bättre än under Yinglucks styre, som måste rankas som den sämsta någonsin.
Det märks ju på den snabba ökningen av turismen.
Inte alla håller med dig. Besk kritik i Bangkok Posts ledare häromdagen. Stabiliteten är bara på ytan, och Yinglucks regeringsperiod står sig bra i en jämförelse med Prayuths, är budskapet i den.
"This is the junta's most enduring justification for its existence, but after two years and one week it rings hollower than ever. The country's stability is only skin-deep -- instead there has been stasis. The divisions still linger, the political differences remain, but with no outlet for expression they fester under the surface; with the dictatorship limiting the chance for alternative opinions to be heard, the conflict has only been delayed rather than solved. All we really have is a false sense of stability.
There was unrest before the coup, certainly. But it is easy to forget -- in the wake of the amnesty debacle, the protests, the annulled 2014 election and the Constitutional Court dismissing the cabinet -- that most of Yingluck Shinawatra's term was a marked by a deliberately cautious, almost anodyne, style of governing. It was not without its problems -- the fallout from the rice-pledging scheme continues -- but the first two years of the Yingluck administration compare favourably to the same period of Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha's regime. Her gaffes -- when she spoke of the country of Sydney and the province of Hat Yai -- were cringeworthy at the time but now look innocuous next to Gen Prayut's victim-blaming in the wake of a rape and double murder and joking threats to execute journalists.
But along came the self-destructive amnesty bill and the backlash. It provoked real outrage at first but as the months wore on morphed into a campaign to lay the foundations for military intervention. With the election annulled, the cabinet dismissed and opposing groups of protesters threatening not to keep a respectful distance, Gen Prayut had the crisis he needed and seized the opportunity."
http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/993037/led-into-a-false-sense-of-stability
