Former PM Yingluck says junta has failed Thais on 7th anniversary of coup

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

Ousted fugitive former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra wrote on her Facebook page today (Saturday) saying it was bitter and hurtful to see the Thai people failed by the junta led government, seven years after the military backed National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) took power.

 

“Throughout the past seven years, I feel hurt and bitterness for my Thai brothers and sisters, who have been tolerating and hoping that the government will eventually do some good for the country. As the years have gone by, however, all the promises they made, to justify the coup against me, have no sign of ever being fulfilled,” the former PM said, on the anniversary of the coup, led by now prime minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, which toppled her administration in 2014.

 

Though a general election has been held, Yingluck said it was only to give an impression that the junta has already returned power to the people. In reality, the Constitution was designed to ensure their continuation in power and the people’s calls for its amendment have been ignored, she added.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/former-pm-yingluck-says-junta-has-failed-thais-on-7th-anniversary-of-coup/

 

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[Antonymous]

Well timed.

 

This won't go down well with the Govt.

[canopus1969]

26 minutes ago, Antonymous said:

Well timed.

 

This won't go down well with the Govt.

The truth can hurt

[RotBenz8888]

38 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

the coup against me

Exaggerating your importance a bit? 

[ThailandRyan]

She is 100 percent correct.  The other issue is with election not until 2023, Uncle Tu will be in power until at least 2030, Thailand is in for a real world of hurt unless the apathy created can be overcome.  The question is how do you fight against a deck he stacked with 250 appointed senators and the backing of a few of the other parties.....By 2030 the entire country will be well underneath the poverty level while the Hi-So's will have gained immense wealth and normal folks will be scrambling just to feed themselves daily......my opinion and view.

[fishtank]

She is of course correct but the Shinawatra mafia where not much better.

[Wiggy]

24 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

She is 100 percent correct.  The other issue is with election not until 2023, Uncle Tu will be in power until at least 2030, Thailand is in for a real world of hurt unless the apathy created can be overcome.  The question is how do you fight against a deck he stacked with 250 appointed senators and the backing of a few of the other parties.....By 2030 the entire country will be well underneath the poverty level while the Hi-So's will have gained immense wealth and normal folks will be scrambling just to feed themselves daily......my opinion and view.

+1

[Wiggy]

12 minutes ago, fishtank said:

She is of course correct but the Shinawatra mafia where not much better.

At least she was better to look at. 

[mtls2005]

Wow. 

 

We were told that the Junta would execute a twenty-year plan.

 

Why get all antsy in Year 7?

 

Be patient. It takes a long time to turn the clock back 100 years.

 

And gvien the next big event maybe better to stick with current regime.

 

 

 

 

[mfd101]

11 minutes ago, Wiggy said:

At least she was better to look at. 

Well, indeed, though not notably great as PM. Still, she was several cuts above the current mob.

 

As for the current mob trembling in their boots at her words, they'll just be laughing.

[Poet]

57 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Exaggerating your importance a bit? 

No. She was Thailand's democratically elected Prime Minister at the time of the coup. She was, indeed, the person who was deposed.

You can research this on Wikipedia, it was a very interesting situation.

 

[spidermike007]

She could not possibly be more correct in her assessment. 

 

Sorry to inform you, Prayuth. But when you run a nation built upon a foundation that only protects the elite, the super wealthy, those that are well connected, those in power, and a spectacularly corrupt army, you will be despised and disregarded. You are NOT a serious man. 90% of Thailand knows this, and most of the world does too. 7 years has proven that time and time again.

 

The level of corruption here simply escalates, the further up the food chain you go. They police and army are not expected to be honest, and they are not expected to engage in law enforcement, traffic or public safety, on any level. It is an irrevocably broken and dysfunctional system. Any hyperbole to the contrary, is just a smoke screen, intended to deceive the most naive amongst us.

 

The Anti-Corruption Organization of Thailand (ACT) is one of the most feeble and ineffective of all the tools Prayuth has used to deceive the people into believing that he is fighting corruption. Who was the last high level authority, in the police, immigration, the army, or the active administration they arrested, charged, tried convicted, and sent to prison? Nobody. Zero. Nunca. Nada. Why? Because Prayuth has had a mandate from the beginning to do the very opposite. To protect the elite, the super wealthy who are guilty, those that are connected, and those who are in power. Just think Dark Tao. Just think Red Bull. The list goes on, and on, and on. Only the most naive amongst us believe he or ACT secretary-general Mana Nimitmongkol are sincere about this.

 

Yingluck is right. Only the youth can save Thailand from the ultra toxic dinosaurs. 

 

[Poet]

17 minutes ago, mfd101 said:

Well, indeed, though not notably great as PM. Still, she was several cuts above the current mob.

She was, actually, unusually competent relative to other Thai governments. The whole rice thing was, in essence, a good idea that got woefully abused at local level. The elites framed it as corruption that personally benefitted her, but that was never true, and everyone knew that. The Thai elites have never accepted democracy or the idea that the masses should receive anything from the pot.

Ironically, the Shinawatras enlarged the pot for everyone over the past two decades. The elites were the overwhelming beneficiaries of that, but they still didn't like the idea of elderly grandmothers in Isaan receiving subsidized medical care. I estimate that their reflexive selfishness has cost them, collectively, trillions over the past six years of chronic mismanagement.

In particular, as Thailand's representative, Yingluck made an extremely good impression on other world leaders, most notably the Americans. Thailand's main gig, at this point in world history, is to skillfully play both sides of the US/China rivalry. Losing Yingluck in 2015 was, on that score, a massive strategic loss.
 

[WineOh]

❤️ her

[Pravda]

looking good as ever.

 

susu????

[champers]

In better times. 

 

She keeps herself busy.

Edited May 23, 2021 by champers

[brommers]

Takes one to know one. She was hardly a shining example of getting anything right, like the utterly corrupt and costly rice pledging scheme for one.

[Denim]

I wonder what all the mugs that supported Suthep and the coup think about it now looking back. ( many on this forum )

 

What stooges they all were. Totally played by the military , who themselves are not that bright.  They are now getting what they deserve..

 

Unfortunately , everyone else is getting what they don't deserve.

[Pravda]

6 minutes ago, brommers said:

Takes one to know one. She was hardly a shining example of getting anything right, like the utterly corrupt and costly rice pledging scheme for one.

 

You are Thai, you sure know.

[WineOh]

14 minutes ago, champers said:

In better times. 

 

She keeps herself busy.

lovely 

[ezzra]

So with all the unrest, rampant Covid everywhere, poor economy performance and a now it seems a self appointed PM for life, (well, almost) and the THB is still stronger then ever, with no prospect of weakening, how do you explain That?...

[Misterwhisper]

Of course she is entirely correct that

a) the coup against her government was highly illegal;

b) the coup was staged under fabricated pretenses;

c) the coup makers have utterly failed on every single front to fulfill the promises they've made to the people;

d) the most recent election was nothing but a sham to lend the military junta a tinge of false legitimacy;

e) there is no democracy in Thailand

 

BUT... let's also not forget that

1) as a prime minister she was highly incompetent, if not to say inept;

2) she acted merely as a proxy to her self-exiled brother, thus lacking legitimacy in her own right;

3) her government was just as infested with corrupt and self-serving ministers and MPs as the current one, being rattled by one outrageous scandal after another throughout her entire tenure;

4) her government was just as autocratic - thus undemocratic by definition - as the current lot (actually, I'd even claim Thailand has never had a government that was NOT autocratic).

 

But yes, admittedly she was the prettiest PM Thailand has ever had. But does that count for anything?    

[herfiehandbag]

2 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Exaggerating your importance a bit? 

Well, she was on course to win the election, and the coup was staged to prevent the election being completed...

[rumak]

13 minutes ago, Denim said:

I wonder what all the mugs that supported Suthep and the coup think about it now looking back. ( many on this forum )

 

What stooges they all were. Totally played by the military , who themselves are not that bright.  They are now getting what they deserve..

 

Unfortunately , everyone else is getting what they don't deserve.

 

well,  like every politician or government around the world........ the words they use to get in power always sound so good.     

Another thing many on TV  are often telling others here is to  "listen to the government experts " .   Its just as corrupt in "our home countries"  as it is here .   

 

eventually the only way to survive is to be as dishonest as everyone else.   or,  so it seems.

How many amongst us are exceptions to that ?   

[pixelaoffy]

19 minutes ago, ezzra said:

So with all the unrest, rampant Covid everywhere, poor economy performance and a now it seems a self appointed PM for life, (well, almost) and the THB is still stronger then ever, with no prospect of weakening, how do you explain That?...

Because it isn't "stronger than ever'.  You aren't up to date 

[Denim]

2 minutes ago, rumak said:

well,  like every politician or government around the world........ the words they use to get in power always sound so good. 

 

To the gullible.

 

2 minutes ago, rumak said:

How many amongst us are exceptions to that ?

 

I'm as honest as the day is long , the shorter the day , the less I do wrong.

[pixelaoffy]

3 minutes ago, rumak said:

 

well,  like every politician or government around the world........ the words they use to get in power always sound so good.     

Another thing many on TV  are often telling others here is to  "listen to the government experts " .   Its just as corrupt in "our home countries"  as it is here .   

 

eventually the only way to survive is to be as dishonest as everyone else.   or,  so it seems.

How many amongst us are exceptions to that ?   

Facile remark ! To accuse 'our home gov as corrupt as Thailand'.   Where do you come from. the Congo or some other African Republic

[herfiehandbag]

10 minutes ago, Misterwhisper said:

Of course she is entirely correct that

a) the coup against her government was highly illegal;

b) the coup was staged under fabricated pretenses;

c) the coup makers have utterly failed on every single front to fulfill the promises they've made to the people;

d) the most recent election was nothing but a sham to lend the military junta a tinge of false legitimacy;

e) there is no democracy in Thailand

 

BUT... let's also not forget that

1) as a prime minister she was highly incompetent, if not to say inept;

2) she acted merely as a proxy to her self-exiled brother, thus lacking legitimacy in her own right;

3) her government was just as infested with corrupt and self-serving ministers and MPs as the current one, being rattled by one outrageous scandal after another throughout her entire tenure;

4) her government was just as autocratic - thus undemocratic by definition - as the current lot (actually, I'd even claim Thailand has never had a government that was NOT autocratic).

 

But yes, admittedly she was the prettiest PM Thailand has ever had. But does that count for anything?    

She was also elected. That counts for everything.

[puck2]

2 hours ago, Wiggy said:

At least she was better to look at. 

 

I don't know, if Yingluck has her hairs dyed, but looking at Pinoccio's on photos you will see the black stain. A typical sign of old male Thais who want to hide something, a characterisation of the regime.

[Tropicalevo]

39 minutes ago, rumak said:

eventually the only way to survive is to be as dishonest as everyone else.   or,  so it seems.

How many amongst us are exceptions to that ? 

Me.

Edited May 23, 2021 by Tropicalevo