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Thailand:Widespread Unrest Prompts Travel Warnings Canada, US, UK
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by Barbara McPherson | April 28, 2010 at 09:27 am
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Civil unrest in Thailand has prompted travel warnings from the governments of Canada, US and United Kingdom and many more countries. The democracy of Thailand shows signs of unravelling and governments have urged the casual travellers to rethink their plans.
Canada's Warning to Its Citizens
For citizens already in Thailand they are urging extreme caution. Previously warnings were issued for specific areas of the country for non-essential travel. Today those warnings apply to Thailand as a whole.
The Department of Foreign Affairs upgraded an earlier travel advisory to the Kingdom of Thailand Wednesday to a full-blown travel warning, saying all non-essential travel to the politically unstable country should be avoided.
Airport Stormed
Demonstrators stormed the international airport at Bangkok on Tuesday ramping up the danger to foreign travellers.
Thai authorities Wednesday began evacuating some of the 3,000-plus travellers - many of them foreign tourists - trapped at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport since demonstrators stormed the terminal Tuesday.
Countries Issuing Travel Warnings for Thailand
- Australia
- Britain
- Canada
- China
- France
- Japan
- New Zealand
- Singapore
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at 17:54 on April 28th, 2010
The political unrest in Thailand is unlikely to abate in near future.Alternating between democracy and military coup,voilent demonstrations met with equal voilent state force offer a bleak picture.What a Thai intellectual and academic,now in exile,Giles Ji Ungpakorn wrote in his 'Coup for The Rich'"....Thai politics is not a mystery ,unfathomable to the international mind.It only requires the right lenses in our glasses to see the various patterns common to politics all over the world".
There is no such thing as 'international mind' 'international community' or 'coalition of the willing'.If Ungpakorn means Five Permanent Bandits,mandated to decide the fate of the rulers and the countries,they represent none other than their permanent interests,which are always at variance with poor countries like Thailand.There are no energy resources calling for regime change.Afghanistan and Iraq needed US sponsored democracy,not Thailand.
Thai politics is not a mystery,we all know.Mysterious are the ways of those who want to rule us,with or without our,to use Noam Chomski's paraphrase,manufactured consent.There is never one manufacturer of consent any where in the world,so in Tahiland.
Travel advisories have been issued to warn executives of MNCs that there is nothing in Thailland left for pillage or plunder,better you stay away.
And lastly,neither we have our lenses nor glasses to see what is happening here,there and everywhere.Both are provided by powers-that-be and the gutter(but very powerful)media.