Southeast Asia, etc. #4 Thailand: Democracy in a Military Regime - a podcast by Dene-Hern Chen
from 2018-07-31T07:25:27
For the past four years, Thailand has been under military rule, after the junta deposed of Yingluck Shinawatra from power in 2014. The current prime minister, Gen. Prayuth Chan-o-cha, is a career military man who has repeatedly postponed elections. But pressure grows as Thailand enters its fifth year without a democratically elected civilian government.
"There’s a phrase in Thai that says 'Len kan meung." It means to play in politics, and it implies that politicians, whether democratically elected or not -- they do their own thing. They are not us; they are their own cast, they are their own people that do their own thing, so we better stay out of the way."
GUEST: Saksith Saiyasombut is Channel NewsAsia's Thailand correspondent. Before he joined CNA in 2016, he was a political blogger and contributing writer for Asian Correspondent.
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