Still no valid rationale for the coup
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Re: "Remember prior crackdowns", Letters, June 30.
I agree with Barry Kenyon that some of the violence that occurred before the coup was worse than the detention of those 14 students. But once again I want to note that the military could have stepped in at any time and put an end to the street violence without staging a coup.
Perhaps temporary martial law could have been justified when Bangkok was having all that violence. But what was the justification for the coup and what were the real intentions behind it?
Nobody has even attempted to address these questions.
Eric Bahrt
Chiang Mai
