Kasit piromya biography of mahatma

Kasit Piromya: ‘It’s not black and white’

Political tension in Thailand is boiling over into street fights, and it has been happening repeatedly over the past several years.

At its core are the differing opinions about the country’s existing power structure.

Kasit piromya biography of mahatma Kasit was born on 15 December at Thonburi. He received early education at Bangkok Christian College and then went to study at the high school level at St Joseph's College, Darjeeling. After that, he returned to higher education at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. Kasit has received the following royal decorations in the Honours System of Thailand:. Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.

On one side is an alliance between the military and its political supporters – who on the street are known as the Yellow Shirts. They see themselves as the guardian of political continuity.

The most potent symbol of this is the king, and the Yellow Shirts guard his position with fervor. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-serving current head of state, is 85, and the question of succession is now lingering over the country.

On the other side are the so-called Red Shirts.

Their most powerful leader has been Thaksin Shinawatra, who rose to power with particular strong support from people living in the countryside.

After being forced out as prime minister in a military coup in , following allegations of corruption, his sister Yingluck took over the post upon winning the elections last year.

A key player in Thai politics, the opposition member of parliament discusses the challenges that face his country. Political tension in Thailand is boiling over into street fights, and it has been happening repeatedly over the past several years. On one side is an alliance between the military and its political supporters — who on the street are known as the Yellow Shirts. They see themselves as the guardian of political continuity. The most potent symbol of this is the king, and the Yellow Shirts guard his position with fervor.

And a key player in all this is Kasit Piromya, an opposition member of parliament.

As an active opponent of the Thaksin government, he participated in the takeover of the Bangkok airport in in an effort to bring down the government. In the ongoing investigation of those events, he has been questioned by the police many times.

Kasit was appointed foreign minister under Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who ruled from to , and he remained in the cabinet when the country’s military opened fire on Red Shirt demonstrators in , killing more than 80 people.

Biography of mahatma gandhi Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara, recently spoke at the World Economic Forum on the current situation in Myanmar and the region's response, with the speech being then printed in this newspaper. While on the surface, the minister's words appear pragmatic to the stakeholders involved, they merely serve to help legitimise and prop up a murderous regime while ignoring the reality of Thailand's role over the past three years. The minister's solitary talks with Myanmar's foreign minister are particularly troublesome. After almost three years of atrocities committed by the Tatmadaw during this civil war -- which is believed to have led to the deaths of at least 20, civilians, the internal and external displacement of close to two million people, and an incalculable number of homes and businesses destroyed -- for Khun Parnpree to continue this formal recognition of the junta and his counterpart is extremely unbecoming, but unfortunately not surprising. In noting that Myanmar's democratic and economic progress over the prior decade has unravelled with seemingly no end to this crisis in sight, the minister failed to mention why this occurred and who was responsible.

Commenting on the incident, he said “every government has the legitimacy to use force when the protesters use arms, any legitimate government would have done that.”

His most controversial moment however came when he dared to talk about the role of the monarchy – a very sensitive subject in Thailand.

Just last month, a journalist was sentenced to 11 years in prison for insulting the king. On the subject of freedom of speech and ‘lese majeste’, Kasit told Al Jazeera: “It’s not that black and white … it’s the abuses of the law, on the enforcement and the interpretation, not on the law itself.”

But when demonstrators were being killed in the streets three years ago, he said: “I think we should be brave enough to go through all of this and to talk about even the taboo subject of the institution of the monarchy.”

But he also praises the king and says that the monarchy has been “the instrument of changes for the Thai society at least for the past seven to eight hundred years”.

In this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, Khasit Piromya discusses Thailand’s national and regional challenges and the role of the monarchy.

Published On 18 Feb Feb