Rumours of coup in Thailand is fake news: Thai police

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

Daily News said that the army investigated claims yesterday made online that the Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha had been arrested. 

 

It was claimed that the PM - named as Big Too in the media's headline - had been arrested by 300 soldiers at his residence.

 

His residence is in an army base in the north of the Thai capital Bangkok. 

 

It was further claimed that a coup d'etat had been mounted. 

 

The army determined that this was not the case and was indeed all fake news. 

 

The army's legal affairs department are now preparing a case against those responsible that will be presented to the police for prosecution. 

 

The post had damaged the fine upstanding name of the army and the government, it was felt.

 

In addition the RTP spokesman Pol Col Sirirat Deephor gave details of a product containing Fah Thalai Jone under a brand name called Inthra that claimed Covid-19 treatment properties and application that were not true according to the Thai food and drug administration.

 

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[mtls2005]

"There will not be a coup."

 

 

How reassuring.

 

 

[Gottfrid]

5 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

"There will not be a coup."

 

 

How reassuring.

 

 

Yeah, I believe everyone who says that.

[Phuketshrew]

11 minutes ago, webfact said:

The post had damaged the fine upstanding name of the army and the government, it was felt.

????????????

[rabas]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

In addition the RTP spokesman Pol Col Sirirat Deephor gave details of a product containing Fah Thalai Jone under a brand name called Inthra that claimed Covid-19 treatment properties and application that were not true

Maybe they read this?

 

Thai Cabinet Approves Use of Fah Talai Jone to Treat Asymptomatic COVID-19 Cases

 

[Mr Meeseeks]

31 minutes ago, webfact said:

the fine upstanding name of the army and the government

????????????

[law ling]

Well, at least he now knows how it will happen: he'll be arrested - an inglorious end.

[pegman]

 Trial balloon? 

[metisdead]

A post using a profane trolling acronym has been removed. 

[Mavideol]

55 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

"There will not be a coup."

 

 

How reassuring.

 

 

sounds familiar.... is that what Prayut said just before doing it   555

[RubbaJohnny]

Fake love

Fake subhubs

Fake romance
Fake women
Fake News
Fake Rolexes 
Fake Bomb detectors
Fake Immi imposters

and now FAKE COUPS

Amusing Thighland ,What's it got?  It's got the lot.

[DLock]

It may not be true today...but sooner or later, it will be true.

[tingtong]

Based on the past 100 yrs of Thai history, about every 8 yrs on average?

 

An easy bet that Prayuth wasn't the last.

[RubbaJohnny]

7 minutes ago, DLock said:

It may not be true today...but sooner or later, it will be true.

Putsch off, four now.

[chalawaan]

"It'll be over by Xmas", as they said in 1914. ????

As for fine upstanding name of the army, did anyone see the Twitter post with the fine upstanding army making a propaganda film where a squaddie in full combat rig is escorting a blind kid across the road?

Or was that propaganda faked too?

Edited August 2, 2021 by chalawaan

[mfd101]

Usually in authoritarian regimes the first sign that something major is going to happen is an announcement that nothing is happening (eg Eastern Bloc Europe 1989).

[BobinBKK]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The post had damaged the fine upstanding name of the army and the government, it was felt.

Indeed... 555

[BobinBKK]

1 hour ago, RubbaJohnny said:

Fake love

Fake subhubs

Fake romance
Fake women
Fake News
Fake Rolexes 
Fake Bomb detectors
Fake Immi imposters

and now FAKE COUPS

Amusing Thighland ,What's it got?  It's got the lot.

One thing it doesn't have is "prostitution on Walking Street" ~~~

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, RubbaJohnny said:

Fake love

Fake subhubs

Fake romance
Fake women
Fake News
Fake Rolexes 
Fake Bomb detectors
Fake Immi imposters

and now FAKE COUPS

Amusing Thighland ,What's it got?  It's got the lot.

...said someone using a fake name...

[Guderian]

He must be dreading the possibility that Thaksin will actually walk back in through the front door one of these days.

[johnnybgood]

I'm confused.

Why report fake news?

[spidermike007]

A coup against the coup leaders? The army getting sick of the army? It boggles the mind. The entire nation despises this leadership to no end, except perhaps the army generals, who are all enriched by them, no doubt. 

[terryofcrete]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The post had damaged the fine upstanding name of the army and the government, it was felt.

Jaysus Wept !

[mfd101]

15 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

A coup against the coup leaders? The army getting sick of the army? It boggles the mind. The entire nation despises this leadership to no end, except perhaps the army generals, who are all enriched by them, no doubt. 

There's always a general waiting to take over from the current one.

 

Military forces are just like politicians and bureaucrats. They spend most of their time forming cliques and fighting each other.

[ronster]

Pity !!!

[Srikcir]

40 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

A coup against the coup leaders? The army getting sick of the army? It boggles the mind. The entire nation despises this leadership to no end, except perhaps the army generals, who are all enriched by them, no doubt. 

Whether it is relevant in the case of coup fake news, the Army is divided* into two opposing factions: Queen's Guard (including Eastern Tigers of which Prayut identified with) and the King's Guard. In the last reshuffling of top general leadership prior to Prayut's election as PM, I believe there was a shift of the Army general leadership from the Queen's Guard to the King's Guard.

So Prayut's continued military support as PM might be now tenuous.

*ref. Google, etc.

[Sydebolle]

Just waiting for the next level being fake news about fake news! 

[3NUMBAS]

men in black snipers havent appeared yet so not true just yet

[dick turpin]

A coup and a run on the baht, that's the last thing we want to see....hmm

[Burma Bill]

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

The army getting sick of the army?

Maybe the navy getting sick of the army - no subs forthcoming!!!