Three Years After Coup, Rural Thais Yearn For Democracy
Three years after their latest coup, Thailand’s arch-royalist military is firmly dug-in. Dissent is banned, a junta-appointed legislature makes the law — and awards the army an ever-burgeoning budget — while a new constitution gifts the military power to write the script for Thailand’s next 20 years. But discontent lingers and is at its sharpest … Read more