THAILAND

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.