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No more coups, please
Oped, Editorial, Published on 09/10/2020
» The new army chief Gen Narongphan Jitkaewtae raised hopes when he said during his first press conference that the chances of a coup are zero.
Bell tolls for coups
News, Postbag, Published on 24/10/2018
» Re: "Army at the centre of our vicious circle", (Opinion, Oct 23).
Coups not the answer
News, Postbag, Published on 23/05/2019
» Re: "Regime is here to stay", (Editorial, May 22). While the Bangkok Post correctly points out that the "many Thais who initially backed the regime … should have come to realise now that a military coup can never be a real solution to a flawed or corrupt government", the reality betrays an even deeper failure to understand Thai affairs by those Thai citizens who supported the coup. The piously unfulfilled promises made up to justify the latest overthrow of the supreme legal pillar of the Thai nation -- the constitution, that defines every other official Thai institution -- should never have been credible to anyone given the decades-long history of coups that have served only to prevent the evolution of healthy democratic solutions to Thailand's endemic corruption and other political ills.
PM vows no more coups
News, Post Reporters, Published on 10/03/2023
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Thursday vowed there would be no more coups, saying the 2014 putsch was the last, in an attempt to allay fears as the general election nears.
The way to fight coups
Oped, Editorial, Published on 11/12/2024
» South Korea has charmed the world with "soft power" such as K-Pop. But the country and its citizens have just shown their democracy is even more inspiring.
A big no to coups
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/11/2025
» Re: "Court lifts veil on army's IO ops", (Editorial, Nov 9).
Judicial precedent 'needed' to prevent coups
News, Kamolwat Praprutitum, Published on 22/05/2022
» Today eight years ago the military did what many feared it would do -- engineer the coup that toppled the Pheu Thai Party-led government. Naming itself the National Council for Peace and Order, the coup maker argued it had to seize power to break the legal and political impasse. To its critics, there can never be justification for usurping power.
2 coups (failed) and random speculation
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/12/2022
» Could there be anything more ridiculous than last week's failed coup attempt in Peru?
Pheu Thai bill 'to curb coups'
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 07/12/2024
» The Pheu Thai Party has proposed a bill to amend the Defence Ministry Administration Act, which would reduce the military's power to conduct coups d'etat.