น่าสนใจมาก คัดมาให้อ่านสั้นๆนะครับ เรื่องเต็มให้ตามลิงค์ไป
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/02/18/protests-deadly-thailand
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26224510
It's a family story, and it's also a political story. The protestors are very beguiled by the figure of Thaksin Shinawatra, the prime minister's brother, who's a very abrasive, very ambitious man. He's extremely wealthy. But he also shaped a new political party that used modern methods to appeal to the ordinary rural poor, who never voted in any kind of pattern before.
And he appealed directly to them with well-marketed policies like universal health care and micro-credit schemes, and
he's won this bedrock of loyalty among a population that's big enough to guarantee him election victories.
That turned Thai politics on its head. All the traditional power brokers in Bangkok, who are close to the big businesses, close to the royal palace and close to the military, have found that their party, the democrats, I mean opposition party, simply can't beat him. But he really frightens them, and certainly he had a lot of black marks against him on human rights issues, on corruption issues.
But because they can't beat him at elections, they're putting their weight behind this protest movement in the hope that they can create enough political paralysis either to force the military to intervene, although the army says it doesn't want to,
its last coup didn't reflect very well on its ability to govern the country, or perhaps intervention by top judges, who are also hostile to the government, perhaps even senior royalists to get an interim government of what they call good people, clean people who could govern the country while they reshape the political system to try to prevent its dominance by a very successful elected politician like Mr. Thaksin and of course his sister, Prime Minister Yingluck.
ข่าวเมืองนอกที่เล่าเรื่องตรงๆ ของการเมืองไทยเช่นนี้ หาอ่านไม่ได้ตามสื่อในเมืองไทยจริงๆ ครับ
จริงหรือ การเมืองไทยในสายตาต่างชาติ ??? It's a family story, and it's also a political story.
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/02/18/protests-deadly-thailand
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26224510
It's a family story, and it's also a political story. The protestors are very beguiled by the figure of Thaksin Shinawatra, the prime minister's brother, who's a very abrasive, very ambitious man. He's extremely wealthy. But he also shaped a new political party that used modern methods to appeal to the ordinary rural poor, who never voted in any kind of pattern before.
And he appealed directly to them with well-marketed policies like universal health care and micro-credit schemes, and he's won this bedrock of loyalty among a population that's big enough to guarantee him election victories.
That turned Thai politics on its head. All the traditional power brokers in Bangkok, who are close to the big businesses, close to the royal palace and close to the military, have found that their party, the democrats, I mean opposition party, simply can't beat him. But he really frightens them, and certainly he had a lot of black marks against him on human rights issues, on corruption issues.
But because they can't beat him at elections, they're putting their weight behind this protest movement in the hope that they can create enough political paralysis either to force the military to intervene, although the army says it doesn't want to, its last coup didn't reflect very well on its ability to govern the country, or perhaps intervention by top judges, who are also hostile to the government, perhaps even senior royalists to get an interim government of what they call good people, clean people who could govern the country while they reshape the political system to try to prevent its dominance by a very successful elected politician like Mr. Thaksin and of course his sister, Prime Minister Yingluck.
ข่าวเมืองนอกที่เล่าเรื่องตรงๆ ของการเมืองไทยเช่นนี้ หาอ่านไม่ได้ตามสื่อในเมืองไทยจริงๆ ครับ