Bangkok, May 2010: Perspectives on a Divided Thailand

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Index 339 INDEX A Abhisit Vejjajiva, 5, 7–8, 20, 25, 27, 30–31, 38–40, 43–45, 47, 72, 77–80, 100, 120, 123–5, 132, 135, 144, 165–66, 168, 173, 178, 182, 186, 194, 200–201, 245, 253, 257–62, 274–76, 282–83, 285, 290, 294, 298, 313, 319, 321, 323 background of, 35 government under, 32–36, 42, 44, 74, 76, 82, 102, 111, 115, 138, 158, 169, 179, 183, 185, 195, 203, 205–207, 209–10, 267, 278, 280, 305, 309, 329 reform package proposed by, 89, 95 absolute monarchy, 22, 192, 221–22, 269–70 see also constitutional monarchy; monarchy absolute poverty, 27, 156, 324 Academy Fantasia, reality show, 93 activist monks, 290–92 agents provocateurs, 294, 299 agrarian change, waves of, 232–36 “ai mong”, 78 Allende, Salvador, 50 Amara Phongsaphit, 303 American Embassy, see U.S. Embassy ammat (establishment), 21–22, 27, 29, 38, 93, 99, 135, 137–38, 140, 144, 179, 225, 287, 292–93, 302, 304, 306–309 see also elite governance amnesty, 279–83, 285, 301, 303 Amnuay Virawan, 17 Amsterdam, Robert, 280–81 Anan Panyarachun, 44, 104, 169, 305–306 Ananda Mahidol, King, 73, 180 ancien régime, 287, 295 Angkor Sentinel, military exercise, 208 anti-monarchical conspiracy theory, 74, 80 see also “lom chao” “anti-system” forces, 129 anti-Thaksin media, 79 Anuman Ratchathon, Phraya, 2 Anuphong Paochinda, 25, 33, 315 Apichatphong Weerasethakun, 184–85 Appeals Court, 277 “aristocratic liberalism”, 105 Army, Thai, 21–22, 25, 35, 43–44, 76–78, 87, 133, 139, 165, 220, 224, 227, 293, 298, 302, 304, 307, 309–10, 323 psychological warfare unit, 237 restructured, 128 Arvizu, Alexander, 253 ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), 166, 202, 204–205, 210–11, 257, 262 ASEAN Charter, 202 ASEAN Plus Three, 4, 202 ASEAN Secretariat, 202 27฀Bangkok฀IndexIT.indd฀฀฀339 12/15/11฀฀฀11:00:18฀AM Index 340 ASEAN Summit, 178, 200–202 “Asia for Asians”, 208 Asia Times Online, 258 Asian financial crisis, 2, 15, 100, 110, 113, 146, 148, 150, 162, 215, 221–22, 231, 232, 329 “assembly of slaves”, 163 Assembly of the Poor, 113 Assets Scrutiny Committee, 302 Associated Press, 182 ASTV channel, 77, 79, 184, 193, 275, 301, 308, 318–19, 321 Atthasit Vejjajiva, 115 Aung San Suu Kyi, 261 Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 182 authoritarianism, 97–99, 101, 105, 164, 190 autocracy, 267–68, 270 Aylwin, Patricio, 51 B Baker, Chris, 27, 245 Ban Ki Moon, 209 “banana man”, 249 Bangkok Commune, 133 Bangkok Post, The, 24, 36, 94–95, 173, 183, 185, 280, 286, 301–302, 318 Banharn Silpa-archa, 16, 166 BBC, 32, 36 “beacon of democracy”, 161–62 Bhumibol Adulyadej, King, 2, 109– 10, 177, 180, 182, 262, 293–95, 304, 327, 330, 333–37 born, 251 see also Chakri dynasty Bhumjaithai Party, 33 “big men”, leadership concept, 271 “biopower”, 91 black-clad gunmen, 77–78, 82, 112, 206, 284 Black May, public uprising, 162 Bloch, Maurice, 316 “blue shirt” militia, 79, 294 bomb attacks, 112, 122, 131, 133 Border Patrol Police, 44 Bottomore, Tom, 145 Boyce, Ralph, 252 “brainwashing”, 26–27 BSI (Business Sentiment Index), 58–59, 61, 63 Buddhism, 30, 288, 290–91 Bumrungrad Hospital, 115 Bunchu Rotchanasathian, 2, 16 Burmese-style junta, 102, 105, 268 Burns, William, 257 bushido, code of, 269 C Cambodia confrontation with, 186, 203–204, 208 Thaksin as economic advisor to, 204, 212 Campaign for Popular Democracy, see CPD Campbell, Kurt, 82, 256–59 capitalism, 2, 89, 101, 113, 146, 288, 304 cash crops, 234, 236 censorhip, 184–85, 305 Central World Plaza, 134, 172 Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation, see CRES CFD (Confederation for Democracy), 193 Chai-anan Samudavanija, 192 Chakri dynasty, 3, 317 see also Bhumibol Adulyadej Chalat Worachat, 194 Chamlong Srimuang, 79, 176, 191–92, 195, 271, 309 “Chang Noi”, 186 Chatchai Choonhavan, 125 Chatrichaloem Yukol, Prince, 185 Chaturon Chaisaeng, 82, 258 Chavalit Yongchaiyut, 31, 194–95 China’s Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation, 37 China, influence of, 208–209 27฀Bangkok฀IndexIT.indd฀฀฀340 12/15/11฀฀฀11:00:18฀AM Index 341 Chirmsak Pinthong, 77 Chuan Leekphai, 7, 18, 117, 166, 195 Chulachomklao Military Academy, 195 Chulalongkorn Hospital, 28, 133 Chulalongkorn, King, 199 see also Rama V, King Chulalongkorn University, 301, 303 civil disobedience, 24 civil society, 328 democracy, and, 305–306 failure of, 301–304 class warfare, 29, 143, 144–45, 157, 166, 300...