It's a recurring scene in politics through the last century and into the 21st – masses of demonstrators turning out to tear down a president or a prime minister. But mass protests against a king or queen seemed to be a relic, a very 20th-century thing.
Two student activists from Chulalongkorn University write that the protests have created "an atmosphere of hope that has been missing in our country since the military seized power in a 2014 coup".
A Thai who circulated this BBC profile was jailed under the lese-majeste law. In a further step to minimise scrutiny, the King of Thailand lives mostly in Germany. Since the pandemic struck, he's hardly set foot in Thailand. This helped galvanise opinion against him.And then there's what he's been doing since assuming the throne. He quickly transferred the royal family's official asset holdings into his personal accounts.
And then there's what he's part of. The longstanding power elites of Bangkok, including the army, use Vajiralongkorn, as they used his father, to legitimise their grip on power. After the billionaire political upstart Thaksin Shinawatra won the 2001 election and began redistributing wealth and privilege, the establishment closed ranks against him. The army staged a coup, with the blessing of the then king, Vajiralongkorn's father.
Why do monarchies still exist? Particularly those in which the throne is automatically bestowed on the eldest child/son even when that person is an idiot.
Anyone who knows Thailand knows the only thing the Army is good at is shooting unarmed civilians and that is the most likely outcome
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