The New Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva , He's gonna have a lot of work to do!

Soch Mel

Thailand's new Prime minister Abhisit Vejajiva, endorsed by his majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, has so much political drama to deal with. With the complicated and most interesting removal of his previous PM via Thai cook show, Vejajiva has a lot of issues to overcome.

In my other post, there is the refugee crisis and how that has been bothering Thais for so many year and that the Thai government has not been living up to it's standards of humanitarianism as it has promised.

Then there is the whole free press issue which involve an Australian writer on charges of insulting the monarchy in his self-published book which only sold seven copies. Just and FYI, NEVER EVER insult the Royals of Thailand, Cambodia, Brunei, Japan, and wherever else there is one in Asia. Monarchs hold great religious and spiritual importance to the people; even if the kings have down wrong which I know has happened with Cambodia, Japan, not sure about Thailand, just don't insult them in the slightest. This is a big TABOO never meant to be broken.

The author Harry Nicolaides has served three years in prison in Thailand; this of course has prompted condemnation by the world community as this punishment seems to us very harsh to us. But as I stated before, Thais are ignorant of other ways of thinking and the perspective of its neighboring countries; some still wonder why Cambodians has a huge irke towards Thailand? I can list it off of the top of my head.

These basic essence of democracy are undermined currently in Thailand. But Vejjajiva is from the opposition Democratic party, so he may be able to bring changes about. But the current situation in Thailand does not look pretty, the temple conflict at Preah Vihear, which is Khmer hence Cambodian staking claim, ignorant Thais to a certain degree, that people shut down the international airport in Bangkok for a while, that coup several years ago, usually removal of PM from power, what is going on here!

I'm sorry to say that this is the side of Thailand I didn't want to see, but people need to be aware that a tropical paradise can hold many problems. To Abhisit Vejjajiva, I say use your background and Oxford education to promote better relations with Laos, Burma, Cambodia, and everyone else, promote peaceful solutions, and cool everyone's jet down! Welcome to Politics! (He's really young, about 44 years old and actually is good looking.)