The king gives, the king takes. And he does it before the eyes of all the people that has not seen anything yet. The excitement in Thailand will not set so quickly after the beginning of the week was read out a message from the Palace on TV. The spokesperson for sass and a gold-coloured dress and a gold-coloured Background, and she announced without apparent emotion, that His Majesty, Rama X., his known second wife, all of the Royal and military titles but. Not even three months, you held the rank of a Royal noble consort, in addition to the Queen, who had married the Monarch in may. So Thailand has experienced in the past three months, the steep rise and sudden case of a concubine.
in July, the Monarch had taken his beloved, and in Public, to the Palace. In a purple dress wrapped, she was at the ceremony of their appointment stretched out to the feet of the king. Later, the Palace gave out 60 photos of the new second wife. This attracted so much attention that the Website crashed. Concubine in the jet fighter. Concubine in Camouflage next to the king with a white poodle. Now all the images have disappeared from the site, as it had been the concubine never.
Where Wongvajirapakdi, which previously carried the rank of major General, since their ignominious demotion is, Sineenat you don’t know. In Thailand, many speculate, they sit in the prison. However, a drakon prohibits Islamic law to criticize the king and his family. Lese majeste is punished with imprisonment up to 15 years. So may questions in Thailand now, nobody after what happened with the abandoned wife. Concerns of the court can be publicly discussed.
a message that nobody can escape in Thailand is reflected in the fate of the concubine. It is unprecedented in the recent history of the kingship. And it is a proclamation of the absolute Power of a monarch, which seems to control the forward in the past. For centuries, the Hellenistic rulers were absolutely at the top of the former Siam. Only in 1932, the Kingdom was transformed into a constitutional monarchy. As Rama X. appointed in July, officially a second wife, stunned the. Finally, the Rama had done VI., in the year 1920.
Absolutist tendency
What all this means? Tamara Loos, the Thai history at Cornell University in New teach York, says: “We may observe, such as Thailand’s slide into absolutism.” The historian called for several documents. The vocation and the abrupt degradation of a second wife is just the latest and most obvious indication. Previously, there were other steps, the place such an Interpretation close. As king Bhumibol 2016 had died, left his son and successor soon, the Crown Property Bureau, the Royal assets administration, under his direct control. Estimated value: more than $ 30 billion.
at the beginning of October, he also ordered two infantry regiments his direct command, make. Although the king is formally the commander-in-chief of all the armed forces, however, with the recent Transfer, he bypasses the traditional chain of command.
“pile It a private army,” says historian Loos. This step should point to possible breaks in the relationship between the military and the Monarch, so this question is not asked in Thailand due to strict laws behind. To says the ambitions of the king’s expert in Loos: “He tries to direct the Power to exercise, what you would not expect in a constitutional monarchy. In this sense he is very different from the father, he exercised his Power indirectly.”
previous Bhumibol had characterized Thailand more than half a century. In doing so, he strengthened the Alliance between the monarchy and the military. Two years before his death, the army staged a coup on the grounds that you had to a the increasingly divided country. The military controlled the government still, however, many puzzles about the relationship of the generals of the monarch, who is working on a private army. So far, the Alliance between the army and the king was to the advantage of both.
dissident to be
The degradation Sineenats is justified by the fact that they have showed “disloyal and ungrateful to the goodness of His Majesty”. followed You should have tried to increase themselves. Their behavior has divided the staff. The king accuses her of Sabotage against their country. “The brutal language, the court began to Sineenat denounce, shows how the king wants the penalty for you to legitimize,” said political analyst Pavin Chachavalpongun the British news channel BBC. The scholar lives in exile in Japan. In August, he was attacked by a masked Unknown. He is not the only critic of the Junta and of the monarch who is exposed to persecution. In 2016 and 2017 disappeared two dissidents in Laos.
The 67-year-old king is married for the fourth Time, in may, he made the now-41-year-old Suthida to the Queen. As he left his third wife a divorce, came to their parents and brothers in prison. The fate of the disgraced-and-white you little. Those that work intensively with the Royal house, to say that she was not well. The 14-year-old son from this marriage, grows up under the care of the king in Germany, Rama X. owns an estate in Bavaria, where he spends a lot of time. Other male descendants of the second marriage, renounced the king, so Prince Dipangkorn is now as the sole heir to the Thai throne.
The degradation of the concubine has triggered a flood of critical Posts in social media.
The degradation of the concubine has triggered a flood of sarcastic Posts in social media in Thailand, despite draconian laws and Cyber controls. Sources in Thailand confirm that in the hours after the case Sineenats more than a Million Posts alone ontwitter appeared before they were deleted in the night.
A user on Twitter wrote: “If I go to jail, I won’t be lonely, I’m going to have a lot of friends.” Therefore, photos of great people to dive gatherings in the Posts, people are somewhere in a queue. These images have become a Code: “As if we were all in a row, to go to jail,” says a Thai woman. “With such pictures, the people Express their anxiety.”
Created: 26.10.2019, 16:43 PM
