Chuan reminds opposition of 2004 armoury raid in Narathiwat as they ponder charter amendments

[webfact]

Chuan reminds opposition of 2004 armoury raid in Narathiwat as they ponder charter amendments

 

Credit Photo : Facebook Chuan Leekpai

 

House Speaker Chuan Leekpai has advised opposition parties to move cautiously if they want to amend any provision in the Constitution relating to resolving the southern unrest problem, in order to avoid past mistakes, resulting in a deterioration of the situation.

 

In his address on amending the charter, at King Mongkut Institute today, Mr. Chuan said that, since the charter was crafted in a manner that makes amendments near impossible, all stakeholders, including the opposition and the Senate, must sit down together to brainstorm ways to amend it before looking at which specific sections should be changed or omitted.

 

He said he didn’t want to comment on the campaign, being launched by the opposition, to solicit support for its bid to rewrite the charter, but would like to advise them to exercise extreme caution when touching on sensitive security, issues like the southern unrest.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/chuan-reminds-opposition-of-2004-armoury-raid-in-narathiwat-as-they-ponder-charter-amendments/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2019-10-08

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[Srikcir]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

must sit down together to brainstorm ways to amend it before looking at which specific sections should be changed or omitted.

There have been many, many successful models around the world dealing with governance in the same situation as in Thailand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autonomous_areas_by_country

 

It's not the "how" that needs to be brainstormed but the "why."

If the military surrogates of the Senate and more fundamentally the military leadership itself cannot recognize and respect the independent traditions, culture and language of the indigenous people of the former Kingdom of Patani¹, no amount of constitutional changes will achieve permanent resolution.

 

Note that the idea of a special administrative region for Thailand's "Malay" regions isn't a new idea.

In circa mid-1800's King, Rama III consented with acceptance of a Siamese suzerainty² for the Sultan of Kedah that avoided the fate for the Sultan of Patani³. A suzerainty relationship is not a form of control that would be acceptable under international law today⁴, but there should be some variations that can be applied to Thailand's Malay regions.

 

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patani

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzerainty

³ http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/kedah.htm

⁴ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNRAeOjA5Jo

[londonthai]

if "since the charter was crafted in a manner that makes amendments near impossible" so the only way is referendum reversing to 1996 one.

 

what armoury raid in 2004 has to do with constitution 2019?