4 posts tagged “coup”

The Democracy Monument

Bangkok has been voted the best city in the world in an online poll by Travel + Leisure magazine.

Yes, there is no city like Bangkok!  I must say I am very proud.  But why everything changes so quickly.

I woke up this morning, opened the TV and the reporter said that we are under an emergency… 

I suddenly think about the last year’s coup We have been under the control of a military appointed government. Until we’ve got a new government. But finally we are under a state of emergency this morning again...

But this time difference, it happens after groups of demonstrators clashed on the street, The street fighting escalated a confrontation between the government and protesters who had occupied the grounds of the prime minister's office for a week.

I’m not sure how governments are going to handle this situation… The protest broadened Monday when labor unions representing 200,000 workers at 43 state enterprises said they would cut off water, electricity and telephone service to government offices beginning Wednesday. Thai Airways employees said they would delay flights beginning Wednesday, and transportation workers said they would halt service on 80 percent of Bangkok's 3,800 buses….

School will be closed today and I heard that some company in the emergency area will be closed as well.

For me, I’m fine… I am a bit far from the place they are protesting. Thanks everone for asking and I hope we are getting back to what we are again… 

soldier with a kid

It’s not in Thailand, Where it was Business as usual, but today we experienced its first military coup for 15 years, an unexpected move the army commander overthrew the government. But People seems living their life the same, no one know what’d they think. But I guess if I am right they are kind of happy. Yesterday I went to Jatujak weekend market, it wasn’t surprise me that there were crowded and people seems living their life just the same, I ask the seller that is the reform effected her ? She said yes. Around 5:30pm I seem some shop closing, I doubt that why they close so early. The owner of one shop said It was about the coup.

parents and their kids

Well, yes I understand. We having a curfew, people need to go home a little bit early than usual. I drove my car back home and think about the good and bad thing in the situation right now. But still have no answer. Along the way I seen the lights and all the bars are still open, Seems like people are totally happy with this situation and welcome for the army.

I turn on the radio to listen and heard that some of the school allow the student to go and take a photo with the army, and some of the guide tour lead their travelers to take the pictures with the tanks and the soldiers. As well as their parents will take their kids to the army, and they will have a chance to play with the tanks and all that. =S

 

The tanks around Bangkok

Yesterday I was on my way back home, friend of mine phone me and said “you need to go back home now, something bad happening… and then I suddenly thought about the

The soldiers with the yellow rose in his hand

Oh gosh... they were a group of the army. Well, they said they are gona reform the

 So far I was in shocked a little while, I never have thought that in my life I will have to face with this kind of thing before…  the army picking up guns and driving tanks and also everybody are not allow to gathering.  We are allowed to living our life the same, So far good thing is thai people trust in the army so everybody is happy to know that we are gona get the new prime minister (hopefully will be a good one).

~ We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated
in the hands of a few, but we can't have both ~