A New Burma

Thailand may well be on the way to becoming a super-oppressive junta state much like her neighbor Myanmar (the former Burma). The former Siam already suffers under an unelected nominal prime minister who was installed by the army. The government as it now exists serves only the interests of the military cadres, the rich, and the politically connected. The will of most of the people is trodden over with governance only supporting the elite. Now, the down trodden could take no more and rallied in opposition only to find themselves and a "rogue general" who championed their cause being shot at and in the case of the former military leader and more than twenty others, actually being killed. Where is the hue and cry of the world so often heard directed against Israel of calls for "restraint" or condemning the government's disproportional use of force? The Thai generals and their installed junta should thank their lucky stars that as they slaughter their own innocents in the streets that they are not under much scrutiny- after all, it is not like they have committed the supreme crime of attempting to defend themselves while being Jewish.