Wednesday, September 20, 2006
One Night In Bangkok
Quote of the Day from General Sondhi Boonyaratglin of Thailand:"I am the one who decided to stage the coup. No one supported me."
Really. According to Webster's a coup is a sudden and decisive action in politics, esp. one resulting in a change of government illegally or by force. Hard to imagine this happening with no support.
What Sondhi didn't say is that he is a Muslim in a Buddhist-dominated country and is known to be close to Thailand's revered monarch - King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
The coup, the country's first in 15 years, was launched late Tuesday while Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was in New York ahead of a scheduled address this week at the United Nations and is the country's 18th in their history.
# posted by Shaky @ 8:48 a.m. 
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What Sondhi was trying to say was that the King didn't ask him to do it. The King was known to dislike Thaksin; Sondhi was responding directly to a question from a foreign reporter who was asking about the King's role in the coup.
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