Yingluck in the dock

摘要

Last year many thousands of red-shirted protesters gathered in Bangkok's streets to back the prime minister, Yingluck Shina-watra. In May she was overthrown in an army coup. And on January 9th only a handful of her supporters risked the wrath of the ruling junta by gathering outside the rubber-stamp parliament where impeachment proceedings against her had begun. Ms Yingluck can expect a five-year ban from politics, and perhaps eventually a jail sentence, if the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) finds her guilty of corruption and negligence during her three years in office. Her impeachment risks upsetting the delicate calm that has prevailed in Thailand since the coup.