{"id":3052,"date":"2008-08-29T10:46:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T17:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2008-08-29T10:46:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T17:46:53","slug":"understanding-thailands-crisis-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/08\/29\/understanding-thailands-crisis-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Thailand&#8217;s Crisis of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_08_29_08\/2008_08_29_hewison.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_08_29_08\/2008_08_29_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=65% src=\"http:\/\/img.iht.com\/images\/2008\/08\/27\/27thai-protest550.jpg\" alt=\"thailand\" \/><br \/>\nThousands of activists in Thailand have occupied a government office compound demanding that Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej&#8217;s government resign. Nearly 2000 police surrounded the mass sit-in by the People&#8217;s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) yesterday and clashed with them, leaving several people injured. A court has issued warrants for 9 of the protest leaders. This confrontation is the culmination of months of protests to unseat the current government. But going further back, the PAD was instrumental in fomenting a December 2006 military coup that toppled the previous government of Thaksin Shinawatra. Since then, under military rule, the country has drafted a new constitution and had a general election which brought into power Sundaravej&#8217;s party run by Mr. Shinawatra&#8217;s allies. The demonstrations have brought central Bangkok to a halt and so far there is no end in sight. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUESTS: Kevin Hewison, Director of the Carolina Asia Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been researching and writing on Thailand for 30 years<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program Thousands of activists in Thailand have occupied a government office compound demanding that Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej&#8217;s government resign. Nearly 2000 police surrounded the mass sit-in by the People&#8217;s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) yesterday and clashed with them, leaving several people injured. A court has issued warrants for 9 of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}