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Suthep brushes aside coup claim

Published: 27/01/2011 at 11:54 AM
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Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban on Thursday brushed aside Puea Thai list MP Jatuporn Prompan's claim that the military was planning a coup, saying he did not believe it would happen.

Mr Jatuporn claimed on Wednesday that he had information from a reliable source that top-level military officers met at a safehouse on Tuesday and discussed staging a coup.

Mr Suthep said that, based on his work with the military ovedr the last two years, he believed there would definitely not be a coup.

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meme
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Discussion 3 : 27/01/2011 at 09:18 PM3
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Why even waste time to debate anything raised by Jatuporn?
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Discussion 2 : 27/01/2011 at 01:26 PM2
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If doubling the military budget, creating two new divisions, allowing military leaders to arbitrarily create laws, and preventing investigators from discovering the truth about the UDD riots (whatever that may be) is not enough and there IS another coup, then there's not really much any government can do to keep them happy. In that event Thailand should just hand over the keys once and for all. Democracy just aint gonna take in some places.
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Discussion 1 : 27/01/2011 at 12:53 PM1
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Maybe the PAD should concentrate on the countries internal problems, and some of the problems they created before trying to create more problems with our neighbor.
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