Coup d\'etat of September 2006 in Thailand

The Coup d'etat of September 19th, 2006 in Thailand makes following a governmental instability, and with some political scandals. The country also knows a wave of terrorist violence separatist on behalf of Moslem extremists in his southern part. But they are the members of the Royal Thai Army who besieged the buildings of the Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, absent at the time of the events. Bangkok passed in a few hours under the control of the soldiers without bloodshed.

September 19th, 2006, nearly fourteen armoured tanks gave an opinion around the House of the government in Bangkok, and nearly fifty soldiers entered the building to take control of it. Since the the United States where it had gone for the General meeting of the United Nations to New York, Thaksin Shinawatra tried to dismiss the general Sonthi Boonyaratglin responsible for the putsh and proclaimed the strict state of emergency in Bangkok.

The following day, King Bhumibol Adulyadej endorses the coup d'etat and the military government of the general Sonthi Boonyaratglin by a royal decree légitimisant the inversion of a government considered as person in charge of drifts racketeers and autocratic leading the country to the “disaster”; Sonthi takes the head of a provisional government and the Council for a Democratic Reform under the aegis of the Constitutional monarchy.

The rural provinces of North and the North-East would be faithful to the Thaksin Prime Minister while the areas urban, richer, Bangkok and the South would be favorable to the putschists.

The putschists also declared the martial Loi, dissolves the Parliament, cancelled the constitution and the constitutional council, severely limited freedom of expression, prohibited the political, prohibited the creation of new political parties and put gatherings the local mediums under control of the military censure.

The international mediums recall that the military coups d'etat are frequent in Thailand (which would be with its eighteenth coup d'etat, the last going back to May 1992).

The blow received demonstrations of support on behalf of the public but also caused protests.

The general with the retirement Surayud Choulanont, former commander-in-chief of the army, was appointed Prime Minister by interim and a provisional Constitution was proclaimed on October 1st.

References

Random links: