25 May 2007

Thailand takes another step in the wrong direction

The government of Thailand is run by the members of a military junta who seized power from the democratically elected government with scarcely a murmur of protest out of Washington. That was bad enough.

Now the country, which is embroiled in a bitter and violent conflict with Muslim separatists in its south, looks set to name Buddhism as its official religion.

I expect an even smaller murmur this time.

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