Prayut rejects reform panel’s 1980-style |proposal for reconciliation
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ONE DAY after a reform panel suggested adopting measures similar to those practised in the Cold War era to reconcile political blocs, junta chiefs debunked the concept as irrelevant to current circumstances.
Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha said that the 66/2523 policy, adopted by the government of then-PM General Prem Tinsulanonda in 1980 to counter communism in the Kingdom, was meant to deal with people of different doctrines equipped with heavily armed forces.
“But the doctrine is not what is dividing our country now,” Prayut, head of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), said at his weekly press briefing. “I want everyone to think twice [about the idea].”
