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Push for panel to end future coups
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 07/02/2020
» Opposition MPs have called on the House of Representatives to set up a special committee to see how coups can be prevented so the vicious cycle of one coup leading to another is stopped.
2 failed populist coups: Compare and contrast
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/01/2023
» Pundits are making much of the similarities between the attempted coup in Washington by Trump supporters two years ago and the one by Bolsonaro supporters in Brasilia on Jan 8, but they are missing the biggest one. These debacles were the most incompetent and half-hearted attempts to seize power illegally in the history of the world.
Sahel coups are just another 'Great Game'
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/08/2023
» If you are a democratically elected leader in one of Africa's Sahel countries -- let's say, Niger -- and you suspect that the army is plotting to overthrow you, what's the best countermeasure? Should you:
Pheu Thai's Prayuth, crusader against military coups
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 11/12/2024
» Pheu Thai Party list-MP Prayuth Siripanich has been in the limelight following his proposal to amend the Defence Ministry Administration Act, aiming to reduce the military's power to conduct coups d'etat.
Daring to dream of an end to coups
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 10/02/2020
» The Future Forward Party (FFP) has a big dream that no other party in Thailand dares or cares to dream. That is the dream that this country will one day be free from coups for good.
Coups, courts, protests and Prayut: a Thai timeline
AFP, Published on 24/08/2022
» The Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Wednesday while it hears a case that could see the former general removed from office.
Coups in Africa's Sahel hampering anti-jihadist efforts
AFP, Published on 30/07/2023
» PARIS - The coup in Niger, the third in as many years to topple an elected leader in Africa's troubled Sahel, threatens to further hamper efforts against jihadist groups in the region, analysts say.
W.Africa leaders meet as region struggles with coups
AFP, Published on 10/12/2023
» ABUJA: West African leaders meet on Sunday for talks with the region in deepening crisis, after four countries fell under military rule and with risks growing from Sahel jihadist conflicts.
Pheu Thai vows to rewrite charter, outlaw coups
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 21/05/2024
» The Pheu Thai Party has pledged to rewrite the military-sponsored constitution and push for an anti-coup law to ensure that military takeovers would no longer be accepted and coup makers would not be recognised as “ratthathipat” (“sovereign”).
Quick-fix coups and the unfortunate legacy of 2014
News, Mongkol Bangprapa and Wassana Nanuam, Published on 22/05/2020
» Some "successes" in governments connected to military coups spell danger for a country where many have grown immune to putsches and look to them for a quick fix to national problems, argues Chaiwat Satha-Anand, a professor of politics and government at Thammasat University.