After the military junta, the council for national security (CNS), overthrew the government of Thaksin Shinnawatr in September 2006. Its aim was to solve the national adversities, or so it claimed, yet still nothing has been solved. The four accusations against Thaksin have not been attested in the legal process and the economic situation is deteriorating.
While it is clear that Thaksin was corrupt and lead the nation in the wrong direction namely that of extreme liberalism and capitalism with corruption, gathering evidence is difficult. In addition, he still has the advantages of money. Through money laundries he bought a mansion in London after the coup d’etat and now he is going to take over “Manchester City FC”.
What is peculiar is that the military junta lets him get away with it. Sonthi Boonyaratglin, the head of the coup, behaves in a gentlemanly way, which no other junta in the world has done. Additionally, five years of the Thaksin regime have taken firm root in the state bureaucracy. Thus, the regulatory system does not function such as the court or election commission of Thailand.
In my opinion, the military junta and the appointed government must be much more assertive with Thaksin and his remained power. They must deter Thaksin’s transactions as soon as possible and should sequestrate his assets in Thailand at least transiently.
Other countries may consider this to be totally non-democratic, but if the situation continues, blood will be shed in Thailand soon. I predict this may happen this month (May 2007) because the first judgement will be declared towards the end of this month. Of course, Thaksin will use all of his money to influence the judgement. Indeed, this gentlemanly dictatorship is still a dictatorship, not democracy as the junta would prefer to see it.
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