Crisis in Thailand

Afshin Rattansi in Tehran talks to Human Rights Watch's Sunai Phasuk in Bangkok.
"For the past two or more years, especially since the September 2006 coup, Thai society has been hypnotised into forgetting about the real social and political issues. Instead, the whole of society and, most tragically, the social movements have been entranced by a fight between two factions of the Thai ruling class. On one side are Thai Rak Thai, Thaksin, the Peoples Power Party and the Government; on the opposing side are a loose collection of authoritarian royalists, comprising the PAD, the pro-coup royalist military, the pro-coup judiciary and the Democrat Party. The authoritarian royalists are not a unified body. They only share a collective interest in wiping out Thaksins party. The two sides are mirror images of each other."

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