re: "Prayut vows army will continue to ‘protect the country’" (BP, August 5, 2023)
Dear editor,
What does Prime Minister (caretaker) General Prayut Chan-o-cha mean by his extraordinary claim that "The armed forces will continue to lead in 'protecting the country'"? Is the Royal Thai Army (RTA) Prime Minister unaware of Thai history? Does he not understand the dire consequences of his own acts on May 22, 2014, the consequences of which even today the Thai people are unable to escape because of the corruption of law to thwart justice in order to deny the Thai nation the democracy, reform and progress it deserves and plainly desires, as shown last May 14?
How exactly does the caretaker PM think that repeatedly committing coups against it could possibly constitute "protecting the country”, let alone "tak[ing] the lead" in doing so? Had democracy been permitted to develop and solve the endemic corruption and other abuses that have for many, many decades thrived under the traditional ways of conspicuously wealthy conservatives, Thailand would today be far more advanced politically, socially and morally than it in fact is. Had at least a few of those coups not been committed, had the nation of the Thai people been allowed to develop as did other nations following the end of military interference in their civil matters, Thailand could now be the equal in economic success and international stature of Taiwan and South Korea. It conspicuously is not.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on August 8, 2023, under the title "Military meddling" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2625385/top-brass-choices
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