By Padmini Arhant
The Thai government’s political crackdown through military might against the Red-Shirt protesters representing the rural poor and the urban working class population is autocratic than democratic.
Thailand is a nation with a history of military coups and a constitutional monarchy as the ceremonial head of the state.
Accordingly, democracy finds itself between a rock and a hard place.
The National United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship aka UDD and their supporters known as the Red Shirts are the discontent mainstream population in the rural and urban areas of the country marginalized by the current government whose representatives are regarded the elitist least concerned about the populist plight.
Having experienced the effective economic policies that:
Reduced poverty by half within four years,
The country’s first universal health care program,
Education, energy and a controversial yet seemingly popular anti-drug campaign under the deposed Premier Thaksin Shinawatra, the political crisis has been looming since 2005.
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