Thai army chief announces military coup

[empireboy]

Geez... they've now just set a curfew 10pm to 5am... and we like that do we?

[JetsetBkk]

Amazing how many posters are in favor of the coup. If you don't remember how it was living here during the last one you will change your tune in a couple of weeks.

I don't remember.

I didn't really notice it much either.

[lawrence1366]

Seems the Military called a fake meeting of heads of both Reds & Yellows then arrested them all?

11 folks from what I can understand Suthep & Jutaporn included

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Good work from the military strategists. Some super powers were suckered into this plan and praised the military for it......555555....now when he got them cornered, he declared it a coup and got the trouble makers in the net. Great work......

[rubl]

No wonder the acting PM did not attend the meetings yesterday & today - someone must have tipped him off that the participants might be detained.

He is hopefully in the north and will establish a government in exile rejecting the fascist takeover!

I hope the coup will fail and Prayuth will be arrested and charged with treason!

Stop dreaming

Well, I though they were doing that for a while already. I mean a government in exile is a government in another country, isn't it? The "Democratic Peoples State of Lanna" ?

[outre99]

Some of you just couldn't get it through your skulls than this being nothing other than a coup.

The couldn't break the PTP by choking Bangkok, they couldn't break the PTP by blocking the election, they couldn't break the PTP through a judicial coup, so the scoundrels have resorted to a military coup.

Get it through your heads. There will be no election. The military/yellows will run the country indefinitely.

Guerrilla warfare will become the norm in Bangkok. It's the only way if Thais in the north and north-east of the country want to retain their civil rights.

Or make the constitution even more one sided!

Really, because the red governments have respected the civil rights of the people in the north and north-east. Go ask the rice farmers who still haven't been paid, or factory workers who lost their jobs because the government couldn't pull their heads out of their asses and do some prevention before the predicted floods devastated the country.

[oxo1947]

Curfew --10 pm until 5 am................. ...bye bye Cowboy

[empireboy]

Amazing how many posters are in favor of the coup. If you don't remember how it was living here during the last one you will change your tune in a couple of weeks.

I don't remember.

I didn't really notice it much either.

Exactly marinediscoking... and who wants to limited by the curfew?

[wow64]

This isn't a coupe remember.. because we have learnt from that.

[Piichai]

Just in. the TV Suthep fan club are holding a celebration meeting at a plush location that cannot be disclosed

I do like the red ribbons hanging from your pocket....very very becoming....not

Hope his rear will not be tempted to eat the stool-classy shoes by the way-very upmarket place to meet.

Looks more like the Reds crying in their beer. Explains the red ribbons...

[Hulkster]

BREAKING : Channel News Asia reporting bomb exploded at Army Club !

Better get used to it in Bangkok.

Anyone who has had their civil rights stripped will resort to any means to have them restored.

[AloisAmrein]

NO holidays in a military dictatorship, I cancel my stay and go to the Philippines. Thailand is going down the drain.

[blazes]

Just in. the TV Suthep fan club are holding a celebration meeting at a plush location that cannot be disclosed

Brilliant photo (and also utterly appalling to think that these could all be Yellow Shirt supporters. )

I am sure the elite will be entertaining them tonight.

[Emptyset]

This was always going to be the end game if they didn't get the result they required via senate or judicial routes. Prawit was said to be angered by Prayuth's refusal to act, but in the end I suppose he was pushed far enough by his superiors or realized which side his bread was buttered. I think they were always going to have to rely on the military in the end anyway, but even if they had managed to cook something up via the senate, the end result would be the same: the installation of Prawit Wongsuwan (or a proxy) as PM. Hardly a bold suggestion at this point I know, but I wouldn't expect to see any of the pure and good (but unspecified) 'reforms' that the PDRC and its supporters have continually banged on about. That was all a facade anyway, something for the folk on the street to parrot. Nope, what I'd expect is a military style govt (tho its makeup will be mostly civilian) for the next couple of years, which carries out a ruthless purge of Thaksin allies and red shirt leaders, coupled with an anti-communist counter-insurgency style 're-education' for the red supporting masses. I honestly hope I'm wrong because I don't think the results will be pretty.

[jimbeam1]

Seems the Military called a fake meeting of heads of both Reds & Yellows then arrested them all?

11 folks from what I can understand Suthep & Jutaporn included

Don't speculate and make things up you don't know to be true. Read the new forum rules that say 'zero tolerance' etc etc

We will find out soon enough. I suspect they've only been taken away to have their heads knocked together and told to grow up.

They'll be back again tomorrow.

You should follow your own advice?

jb1

[Tywais]

A post bringing the royal family into the discussion has been removed. Anymore will find the member on a very long holiday.

[Runamile]

He gave them a chance!

[daveAustin]

I wish a quick and smooth return to a real Democracy And I hope the military see the best way to heal Thailand is to Arrest Thaskin and put him in a cell so remote that they have to pump sunlight into him.

REAL DEMOCRACY is respecting THE PEOPLE VOTE and that has not happened in the last 3 elections which the same party has won

We will again let the people vote who will vote in the same party but again just like the past 3 times the Political elite wont like the results.and therefore will do everything AGAIN to nullify the MAJORITY VOTE.

Yep and I hope it keeps on happening until your 'real democracy' and 'majority vote' -- it don't count when money changes hands you know -- are completely weeded out.

[wilcopops]

Deja vu? it seems that the army is devoid of a sixth sense.....or any of the others for that matter.

[DirtFarmer]

Red rally site has been dismantled some reds detained same with Sutheps mob at His site and apparently the Monk site as well Channel News Asia has been covering it.. lost transmission from The Army Club apparently a bomb went off there and the press ousted.. apparently no conflict from the reds site But Channel News Asia reported that the army asked permission of the PDRC guards to dismantle their site..and was granted but at the red site they just went in and took it apart...

[RedRoadRunner]

Was about time !!!

only the 10pm curfew doesn't help too much.....

[rubl]

You can't really be an x-pat living in Thailand unless you go through at least one coup. It took 4 years years but look at that me and the wifes first coup in Thailand.

I'm not sure I should call you lucky with me (not really) waiting for the last 20 years

[nithisa78]

Channel News Asia has some great coverage in English now

Thank you.

[mania]

Thai TV up now for announcement in Thai

Saying they will be now closing all TV broadcasts

Edited May 22, 2014 by mania

[wilcopops]

Deja vu? it seems that the army is devoid of a sixth sense.....or any of the others for that matter.

[HUAHIN62]

Everyone in Thailand is now or will soon be losers, there are no winners over the long run. Suthep will soon be released and there will be a clamp down on the red shirts and PTP. Within a year we will have a government in exile, sanctions and an insurgency war. Childish games by people with too much power.

[nithisa78]

Channel News Asia has some great coverage in English now

Thank you.

[monkeycountry]

With the kind of "politicians" the Shinawatra government brought us, I'll take Gen Prayuth anytime.

[nithisa78]

Channel News Asia has some great coverage in English now

Thank you.

[craigt3365]

And another member on a posting holiday for spreading misinformation.

Please be careful with what you post!!

[belg]

hub of coups, what is the number now? 19 ? 20 ?