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Nu går skam på torra land som det heter, nu kritiserar t.o.m öppet gula The Nation utvecklingen i Thailand, som skribenten tycker går i rakt motsatt riktning mot den i Burma som är på väg mot demokrati medans Thailand går mot ett militärt styre, detta trodde jag aldrig att jag skulle få läsa i The Nation.
"Den nuvarande thailändska regeringen, installeras av det nationella rådet för fred och ordning, efter det att militärjuntan störtade en vald civil regering maj 2014, Denna ordning är något liknande vad Burma hade innan reformerna mer än ett halvt decennium sedan. Medan Burma är i övergången till full civilt styre, är Thailand på väg tillbaka till militärt styre, om inte i samma utsträckning som det brukade vara i Burma, men kanske liknande den kvasi-demokrati som Thailand hade i början av 1980-talet."
Thailand should look hard at the changes in Myanmar
supalak@nationgroup.com March 9, 2016 1:00 am
THE THAI government needs to pay more attention to political developments in Myanmar and its capital Nay Pyi Taw. It doesn’t matter whether|Aung San Suu Kyi is able to assume the presidency
First and foremost: the nature of the new administration in Nay Pyi Taw is totally different from the outgoing one and notably from the current Thai regime. President Thein Sein, who will step down at the end of the month, is a former commander who heads the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). It would be more precise to say that the USDP is the civilian political wing of the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces).
The NLD-led government will be different because it has no strong linkage with the military. The party has fought against military rule since the beginning. With victory in the general election, the party has more confidence and stronger popular support to take more political space from the military.
The party will not give up its mission to amend the constitution, not only to allow Suu Kyi to take the top position in the country, but also to reduce the role of the Tatmadaw in politics and state administration.
The current Thai government was, of course, installed by the National Council for Peace and Order, the military junta which toppled an elected civilian government in May 2014. This regime is somewhat similar to what Myanmar had before the reforms more than half a decade ago. While Myanmar is in transition to full civilian rule, Thailand is on the way back to military rule, if not to the same degree as Myanmar used to be, but similar perhaps to the quasi-democracy that Thailand had in the early 1980s.
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