นาย DENIS D. GRAY นักข่าวเอพีเขียนบทความในวันนี้ว่าไม่มีทางออกสำหรับประเทศไทย
ท้ายสุดก็อาจจะลงเอยด้วยสงครามกลางเมือง
เขาว่าสำนวน “ ลู่ตามลมของไม้ไผ่ “ ที่คนไทยเคยยึดถือปฎิบัติท่าทางจะใช้แก้ปัญหาไม่ได้ในครั้งนี้
มันคงจะไม่สิ้นสุดง่ายๆ นี่ก็เป็นอาทิตย์ที่ 7 แล้วที่มีการชุมนุมต่อต้านรัฐบาล สังเวยชีวิตไปแล้ว 26 ศพ
“Individuals and institutions, including the monarchy, that once played key mediating roles, are either powerless or silent.” เขาว่า
มันไม่เหมือนครั้งที่ในหลวงเคยหยุดการนองเลือดเมื่อปี 1973 และ 1992 ซึ่งการชุมนุมมีเพียงไม่กี่วัน
ครับผมก็ว่าอย่างนั้น…มันคงไม่เหมือนครั้งก่อนๆแน่ๆ….เหตุผลก็คือ…That was then, but not this time. เพราะอะไรคงไม่ต้องบอกกัน
เชิญอ่านข่าวครับ :
No exit seen from
By DENIS D. GRAY, Associated Press Writer Denis D. Gray, Associated Press Writer – Sun Apr 25, 8:15 pm ET
Until now, it seems.
The latest iteration of
Individuals and institutions, including the monarchy, that once played key mediating roles, are either powerless or silent.
Confrontations have so far taken the lives of 26 people and paralyzed central
Almost everyone agrees that old-fashioned give-and-take is the best way out of the stalemate, which has crippled
But three rounds of talks have already failed, and the seemingly intractable standoff even has some worrying publicly about the potential for civil war.
"Every night, the country is sitting on a time bomb, waiting for chaos to occur," says Surichai Wun-gaeo, a political scientist at
The latest talks broke down Saturday after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva rejected a Red Shirt proposal that Parliament be dissolved in 30 days, a softening of earlier demands for immediate dissolution to be followed by elections.
The Red Shirts consist mainly of rural supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and pro-democracy activists who opposed the military coup that ousted him in 2006. They believe Abhisit's government is illegitimate because it came to power under military pressure through a parliamentary vote after disputed court rulings ousted two elected pro-Thaksin governments.
But what really fuels the protesters — and makes reconciliation difficult — are not legal decisions and political wrangling, but deep-seated anger at a Bangkok-based elite they say treats the rural poor as second-class citizens while it fails to alleviate their poverty.
Compromise is hard even for past masters of the art, given the "intensification of polarization" in Thai society, says Surat Horachaikul, another political scientist at
"This time it involves a change of the system. Never before has the nation been polarized this way," he says.
Some protest leaders and academics have called into question past compromises — which they say merely involved the hoodwinking of the have-nots by power brokers who made empty promises — suggesting they underscore exactly what's wrong with the system.
"Different people see history differently. Thai society is made to think that we're a compromising people and the
Third parties who in the past have helped pull the country back from the edge of chaos have so far played little role in the crisis.
Someone like Anand Panyarachun, a former prime minister and highly regarded peacemaker who warns that
The much-revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, perhaps the pivotal figure in modern Thai history, has been hospitalized since Sept. 19 and remains silent. Last week, Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, a former prime minister, petitioned the 82-year-old king, saying "I can see that there is no other institution that can stop this except the monarchy."
The U.S.-born Bhumibol, the world's longest reigning monarch, stepped in to stop bloodshed during a student uprising in 1973 and again during antimilitary street protests in 1992. Both events lasted just days.
Bhumibol's predecessors are credited with cleverly playing Great Britain and France against each other in the 19th century, insuring that Thailand remained a rare exception — a country in the non-Western world that was never colonized.
But Paul Handley, who authored a biography of the king, says that Bhumibol's "health problems may have left him without the energy to hash out a deal personally."
The king, he says, has the constitutional right to order a dissolution, but he has never done so without the agreement of the government in power, so it is still the government that must strike a deal with the protesters.
"For the king or the palace to step in publicly, they have to have first crafted a compromise they know will succeed in defusing the situation. If the king makes a public move and it doesn't work, then everyone will see him as weak," says the author of "The King Never Smiles."
Still, Handley and others say it is still not too late for a peaceful resolution since both sides have already agreed that Parliament would be dissolved and have narrowed their disagreements over when this should occur.
Other crises in the past, they note, have been defused through new elections, although the government and its allies presently fear balloting would simply bring pro-Thaksin leaders. That, in turn, could spark fresh demonstrations and possible violence if the legions of anti-Thaksin "Yellow Shirt" protesters — whose mass rallies preceded the 2006 coup and sought the ouster of subsequent pro-Thaksin administrations, including shutting the capital's airports for a week — take to the streets once again.
Some hold out hope for another round of talks. But for the moment, many echo a recent editorial in the English-language Bangkok Post, warning that the opposing camps have "reached a perfect stalemate where neither side can secure an all-out victory without suffering extensive losses.
"A concession has to be made by both sides and soon, or the much-feared specter of civil war could become a new reality."
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100426/ap_on_re_as/as_thailand_no_exit
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