EARLY last week Thai army chief and coup leader Gen Sonthi Boonyaratkalin suggested to army-installed Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont to declare a national emergency, as anti-coup protests mounted.
Six months after last Septembers coup that deposed Thaksin Shinawatra as premier, Sonthi had acquired the stereotyped image of a wooden, politically naive soldier. So what was Surayud the reluctant politician to do?
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