Thailand coup protests

[dogday]

The wife of self-exiled billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra, and two of their adult children, did not flee abroad after a bloodless military coup toppled his elected government, paving the way for possible prosecution of his family members for alleged corruption and tax evasion, reports said Friday (September 22).

Defying martial law on Friday (September 22), a dozen Thais protested for the first time against the coup, while an anti-coup petition was launched on Internet from America, signed by hundreds of people.

Thailand's military, armed and extensively trained by the U.S., easily seized power in a bloodless putsch on Tuesday (September 19), gaining crucial support from King Bhumibol Adulyadej, and widespread public approval.

The coup's leader, Army Commander-in-Chief Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratkalin, "informed His Majesty the King that Thaksin Shinawatra, as the prime minister, caused severe division within the nation and destroyed national unity," the palace said on Friday (September 22) after the general, in a snow white uniform, met the king to formally receive the monarch's endorsement in a televised ceremony.

http://www.asianpacificpost.com/portal2/ff8080810dd691f4010dd71223fe0007_Thailand_coup_protests.do.html

[Cha]

1. Hey, could we get el diablo overthrown

on "destroying national unity"?

I still haven't heard from my son who was suppose to be home on the 21st of Sept on Kauai. Hope he's all right!