If this is true,world leaders should pay attention to this attitude when worrying about the demise of democracy in Thailand! ANALYSIS / CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT
The Thai coup, democracy and wearing yellow on Mondays
If, as an educated outsider, you have little familiarity with Thai politics (and in this you would seem to be in the company of Kofi Annan and other world leaders), the military coup in Thailand on Sept 19 will appear as a drastically undemocratic regression to a semi-feudal state, with power allocated by brute force. Inside Thailand, things look rather different. The precise motives for the coup may never be completely known, but the lack of legitimacy of the Thaksin administration is undoubtedly one of them, and this seems to have been enough to persuade the vast majority of Thais (83 per cent in a poll taken two days after the coup) that the coup, on balance, had been a Good Thing. Bemused foreign observers should ask themselves a question like this: Which of the following is less democratic, or more dangerous in the long term, or less legitimate?
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