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A Polite Coup
Why one of Asia's most open societies keeps turning to military rule
Buruma, Ian http://harpers.org/archive/2015/06/a-polite-coup/
Publisher: Harper's Magazine
Date Written: 01/06/2015
Year Published: 2015
Resource Type: Article
As military coups go, Thailand's putsch on May 22, 2014, was rather polite -- no mass imprisonments, no stadiums full of students tortured and shot. The toppled prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, was detained for only three days. Before the coup, there had been months of street clashes between loyalist "red shirts" and opposition "yellow shirts," and now General Prayuth Chan-ocha's junta promised to "restore happiness to the people."
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