'VIOLENCE INVITES VIOLENCE'

摘要

Thailand had been in turmoil for years when Abhisit Vejjajiva was swarn in as prime minister in December 2008, A bloodlessmllitary coup had removed the controversial popullst leader Thaksin Shinawatra from the job in 2006, and Abhisit's two immediatepredecessors were thrown out in rapid succession by the country's Constitutional Court, NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouthspoke with Abhisit at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Excerpts:Thaksin has been gone for two years. Why are people still supporting him?