Lieutenant General Chatchalerm Chalermsukh tries to defend the Thai coup in an interview with the BBC. So far as I know there was no advanced planning, General Chatchalerm told the BBCs Jonathan Head. If it were planned that would be illegitimate. If you are wondering why this happened so smoothly, that was because forces were already deployed in the city. So when we declared martial law, there were already joint military and police forces in place in the area, said the general, who is army deputy chief of staff and a member of the National Council for Peace and Order that now governs Thailand. Since the coup, hundreds of people have been detained in an apparent crackdown on dissent by the military. But General Chatchalerm said the places where they were being held are not really like places of detention. They are like guest houses, he said. There are no barbed wire fences, and we have showed these places to human rights groups. We even broadcast pictures of them on national TV. We showed interviews with some of the summonsed people. Everyone was satisfied with this.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 01:12:16 +0000
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