According to the article there have been protest in Thailand. About two months ago the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) attempted to start a violent confrontation in order to try to prompt another coup. This has not been the first protest but another protest happened last month where the government declared the capital in a state of emergency. The army General did not help in this situation but after two people were killed he decided the army should help.
According to the article, fighting began when two PAD leaders attempted to stop the prime minister from allowing parliament to make a comment. Many people are suffering from the fighting, some have even lost limbs during the fighting. One critical case involved a PAD supporter being killed a car that explosion.
The prime minister and general Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, had joined the government to aid in medication with the PAD recently gave his resigned. The PAD is trying to blame It all on the police force but neglected to state that they had been stabbed and shot at police officers as well. In some news relevant to the violence in Thailand a pilot was fired this week for refusing to carry parliamentarians.
This article really brings some important issues into view. Protest and fighting can cause many issues with in a country and cause so many people to loose their lives. There should be other ways that a country to try to settle their differences before it results to violence that is carried on for months and years. On the other hand, it may not always be realistic that countries do this but all this fighting is causing more problems within the country than helping them settle the problems that have caused the fighting in the first place. In order to settle these differences, fighting and blaming has to end in order to achieve equilibrium within the country.
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12380909
2 comments:
You raise a great point in stating that this fighting and blaming differences on the other must end before preventative steps can be taken, but what are you suggesting should be an alternative solution to these problems?
I think you really had a great thing going, the article was informative and you summed it up nicely, I am curious to see what you would suggest as an alternative to violence that would solve a lot of the problems facing these type of situations.
If fighting is not the answer than is it peaceful protest, sit-ins, boycotts, youth movements? These are techniques that were used by Gandhi and I am curious to see if you think they could work in this case.
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