00:00For many in Thailand, the scenes of anti-government protests on June 28
00:07are a reminiscence of what happened nearly two decades ago.
00:11Many of the leading figures with familiar faces, including this man, Sonti Limtonggun.
00:18In 2006, he helped oust then-Prime Minister Thaksin Chinawad in a military coup.
00:25Sonti led the royalist political movement known as the Yellow Shirts,
00:30the color that symbolizes loyalty to the Thai monarchy.
00:34Almost 20 years later, he is back on the protest stage.
00:38This time around, against Thaksin's daughter, Pe Thong Tan, who is known by her nickname Ung Ying.
00:49Same chance, different Chinawad in power.
00:52This is what happened nearly two decades ago.
00:55Thaksin, open! Thaksin, open!
00:58And again, about a decade later.
01:01This time against another Chinawad Prime Minister, Yingluck.
01:05She is Thaksin's sister and Pe Thong Tan's aunt.
01:08I don't want to see the misuse of this law or the majesty.
01:13Thaksin, open! Yingluck, open!
01:17Yingluck was thrown out of office just days before her government was ousted in a coup.
01:23Thai politics seems to repeat itself without taking a real step forward.
01:29Election, protest, coup.
01:33Election, protest, coup.
01:38Election, protest, coup?
01:41Or would it be different this time?
01:43Or would it be different this time?
01:44I think they still don't have to do this.
01:45The last two decades, it won't happen.
01:47The last six decades, it won't happen.
01:49The last two decades, it won't happen.
01:51The other thing is, we have to use the time to build up the people.
01:54The
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02:48I can't see it.
02:49I can't see it.
02:50I can't see it.
02:51I can't see it.
02:52I can't see it.
02:56On July 1st, the Constitutional Court suspended Paetong Tan from Prime Ministerial Duties
03:02after accepting a petition from Senators seeking her removal.
03:18They were the same.
03:19They were the same.
03:20They were the same.
03:21They were the same.
03:22I should have had a chance.
03:23But I have been there for about 15 days.
03:26I am doing the same.
03:28The reason I am doing that just because I am telling you the actual truth is about the fact that...
03:35what the video is about.
03:37This is the same.
03:38They can't do the same.
03:40The same.
03:42The same.
03:43It's the same.
03:45How did we get to this point?
04:13It started with a border clash between Thailand and Cambodia in late May.
04:20At the root is a long-standing dispute over the more than 800-kilometer-long border,
04:26which stems from the French colonial occupation of Indochina.
04:32It all came to a head when Pei Tongtan was criticized for allegedly kowtowing
04:37to Cambodia's former leader, Hun Sen, in a leaked phone call with him.
04:43The people of the Thai people who have heard of Khoi Nhi,
04:50who have heard of Khoi Nhi,
04:52who have heard of Khoi Nhi,
04:53who have heard of Khoi Nhi.
04:55In previous political crises,
05:03ultranaturalist protest groups also branded Thaksin and Yingluck as ineffective leaders.
05:09Thaksin was accused of corruption and abuse of power.
05:13Yingluck was accused of being Thaksin's puppet.
05:16Both times, the army pledged to restore order to prevent total political destabilization.
05:23Thailand is no stranger to coups.
05:26Since 1932, when the country became a constitutional monarchy,
05:31Thailand has gone through at least a dozen coups,
05:34way more if you also count unsuccessful attempts.
05:39When protests become unmanageable,
05:42the military has often used those scenarios as a reason to intervene.
05:47The military has not been created before.
05:49But if it came out after this,
05:51I don't think that the military will be heard.
05:54Given that we have noticed the problem of the military
05:56that is now in the past.
05:58The military has gone through the last part,
06:00in the past,
06:01the military's military has not been created.
06:03The military has no longer been created.
06:06This is what happened last time.
06:22Just a few days before the coup in 2014, then Army Chief Prayuth Jan Osha imposed martial
06:29law.
06:32He said he had to act because of spiraling political tensions after months of deadly anti-government
06:40protests.
06:41The Army was adamant this was not a coup.
06:45Two days later, however, Yingluck's government was toppled.
06:55Prayuth remained in power for nearly a decade.
06:59A victory to the song he wrote shortly after the coup.
07:02The widely mocked lyrics go,
07:04We will keep our promise.
07:06Just give us some time.
07:08Prayuth retired from politics in 2023.
07:12That year, Thailand held its most recent general election, which saw Chinawatt-linked party,
07:19Pure Thai, return to power.
07:24After several tweets and turns, a third Chinawatt, Pha Thong Thanh, eventually became Thailand's
07:30prime minister.
07:31She is the latest member of her family to face anti-government protest and the removal
07:37from power.
07:38The big question is, will history repeat itself?
07:42Remember this guy, the Yellow Shirt leader?
08:05At the June 28th protest, he denied calling for a coup.
08:10But he did say, if a coup happens, so be it.
08:14If the political crisis can't be solved, but I have only one request.
08:19Don't bring another general to run the country.
08:22Let the people be part of the solution.
08:24We should try to the administration of the country by the East Coast.
08:28We should try to design an agenda for the country by the United States.
08:31For the people who are living in the country,
08:33the country will be left behind.
08:34The same way, the government will turn back to the international law.
08:37So we can see that the government will turn back to the country
08:42as the leaders of the country,
08:45which can't be addressed to the country's national and the world's elections,
08:48to make the changes to the country's climate change.
08:52Analyst DW spoke to say the best way forward is for the government to be dissolved.
08:59That would lead to a snap election, where the people decide their future.
09:11But even in that scenario, would the people's choice be respected?
09:15In the last election, the now defunct Move Forward won the most seats.
09:23Despite the public support, the party leader, Pita Limjarendrat,
09:28was blocked from taking the top job by the Junta-appointed Senate.
09:52The current Senate no longer has such power.
09:58But senators still appoint judges to the Constitutional Court,
10:04Thailand's most powerful judicial body, would just suspend the Patong Tan.
10:10And in the last few years alone, the top court has dissolved the progressive Future Forward Party,
10:16disband the Future Forward successor, Move Forward.
10:20Remove Patong Tan's predecessor, Seta Thovisin.
10:23Could Patong Tan be next?
10:26Could Patong Tan be next?
10:41Thank you very much.
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