Thailand to Welcome Myanmar Coup Leader to Bangkok Summit
Thailand to Welcome Myanmar Coup Leader to Bangkok Summit
Thailand’s move will encourage Min Aung Hlaing to consolidate control by escalating crimes and atrocities, analyst warns.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6592761
Thailand has invited regime leader Min Aung Hlaing to a regional summit that it will chair next month, becoming the second country in the world after Russia to welcome the leader of a 2021 coup that has devastated Myanmar.
This is a rather disappointing action by Thailand as it legitimizes the military government.
I mean, pot to kettle? Current gov in Thailand is also mostly military and also got in charge in the same way... Not all that surprising.
Doesn't Thailand have a military coup every few years? When I visited back in 2014 there were signs all over the airport telling tourists not to join the protests against the latest military coup or you'll end up in a Thai jail!
True, but after however many years in not sure it really matters.
Myanmar lacks infrastructure to pull people out of poverty. Building up is the only really proven way to reduce poverty and everything else is just a temporary solution.