Two Years Ago: Taksin Returns
[Red Shirt images like this were created in a deliberately provocative way in the lead up to the second siege of Bangkok in 2010. Coupled with assurances that Thaksin would be returning soon were wishes of death to Privy Council members and a fine tuning of the pro-Thaksin message to being about breaking and overthrowing aristocrats.
There is no doubt that the heightened rhetoric was, in part, rabble-rousing in the lead up to another occupation of Bangkok. However, even those in conservative circles who are amenable to overhauling the lese majeste law for their own reasons take pause regarding the timing of the present push to change the law.
The legacy of pro-Thaksin messages that repeatedly allude to royal imagery, as well as the overthrow of world monarchies, has made the establishment wary that the present push for changes in the lese majeste law are intertwined in Thaksin's bid to return to Thailand and reenter politics again.]
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วันนี้เมื่อ 7 ปีที่แล้ว : เหตุการณ์ที่ตากใบ - Five Years Ago This Month: News Leading Up to the Coup
เดือนนี้เมื่อ 5 ปีที่แล้ว : ข่าวที่นำไปสู่การรัฐประหาร - Pratchatai lese majeste trial underway
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