{"id":4772,"date":"2008-12-03T10:46:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T17:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2008-12-03T11:13:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T18:13:40","slug":"thailands-government-dissolved-airport-occupation-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/12\/03\/thailands-government-dissolved-airport-occupation-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand&#8217;s Government Dissolved, Airport Occupation Ends"},"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\/DailyDigest120308\/2008_12_03_hewison.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest120308_883\/2008_12_03_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=65% src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2008-12\/43690527.jpg\" alt=\"Thailand\" \/>A week-long occupation of Thailand&#8217;s international airport has culminated in the dissolving of the governing party and banning of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat. Thailand&#8217;s constitutional court declared the government guilty of election fraud in last December&#8217;s elections. Thailand has been in a state of political siege for months, with thousands of anti-government protesters with PAD, the People&#8217;s Alliance for Democracy, occupying a government office compound and demanding the government resign. Despite the court&#8217;s ruling, the governing party plans to recreate itself with a new name, which will likely provide impetus for the protests to continue. As of this morning the airport occupation has ended, allowing hundreds of thousands of trapped tourists to leave. The Guardian newspaper in Britain summed up the political dynamics thus: &#8220;the business elite and the military backs PAD, but the government enjoys widespread support among the poor, particularly in the countryside.&#8221; The 80 year old Thai king, although a symbolic figurehead, is expected to use the universal respect he commands into resolving the on-going crisis. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST:  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<p>To stay informed about the on-going political situation in Thailand, Kevin Hewison recommends the blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/bangkokpundit.blogspot.com\">bangkokpundit.blogspot.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program A week-long occupation of Thailand&#8217;s international airport has culminated in the dissolving of the governing party and banning of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat. Thailand&#8217;s constitutional court declared the government guilty of election fraud in last December&#8217;s elections. Thailand has been in a state of political siege for months, with thousands of [&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-4772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772","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=4772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}