Panel suggests Prem-era policies for unity
By WASAMON AUDJARINT,
SAKDA SAMERPHOP
THE NATION

 

Sangsit

 

Lessons from successful campaign against communists include contentious amnesty

 

BANGKOK: -- A REFORM panel on conflict solving and reconciliation has suggested the adoption of political measures similar to ones that granted amnesty to communist insurgents in the 1980s, in the latest attempt to achieve national unity.

 

In response to the government agenda on reconciliation, the National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) subcommittee on conflict solving and reconciliation yesterday convened its first meeting to pave the way for possible solutions to long-standing political conflicts. 

 

Their suggestions, which are expected to be completed in 60 days, are to be forwarded to the entire NRSA.

 

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Return to the Prem era.

Cue a military band playing "Happy days are here again..."

https://th.wikisource.org/wiki/คำสั่งสำนักนายกรัฐมนตรีที่_66/2523

 

Which came only after the military conducted a fairly effective counter-insurgency campaign, resulting in significant atrocities. The CSOC transitioned into today's ISOC.

 

I think that those who were in power then, and who may still be alive, probably subsequently learned that they must remain ever vigilant against those who would lift up the populace, and so have acted much more preemptively to shut down "populism" and restore "order". See "Coups-r-Us" and "Constitution du Jour". 2006 was an off-Broadway production, while 2014 has garnered all the Tony awards.

Edited January 24, 20179 yr by mtls2005