Thai government overthrown

! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.

The Thai government has been overthrown in a military coup.

The coup, headed up by General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, has pledged its loyalty to the King of Thailand citing poor leadership by the current Prime Minister as the reason for the coup.

General Sonthi was accused in April of human rights violations.  He is said to have operated “black lists” containing the names of Thai citizens who were considered persona non gratis, sometimes for personal or political reasons.  The Asian Human Rights Commission described the black lists as “death lists”.

The General was given executive powers to deal with seperatists operating in the south of the country where the aforementioned human rights violations are supposed to have occured and he promised not to get involved in the politicis of the country.

The military have taken over military buildings and the naitonal media and have suspended the constitution and judiciary.  Thailand is now entirely under military rule.

Interestingly, although Thailand is a Bhuddist country, General Sonthi is a muslim.  Could this be the next state to fall to Islam?

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