Thitinan Pongsudhirak on the next stage of brinkmanship

Nicholas Farrelly - 02 Sep, 2008

The situation’s touch and go. Now with the emergency decree, we have moved to the next stage of brinkmanship…They [the People’s Alliance for Democracy] want to draw blood and they’ve come to the point where they’re willing to be martyrs in order to achieve their aims.

– Chulalongkorn University’s Dr. Thitinan Pongsudhirak, quoted in “Emergency declared in Thai capital after clashes”, AFP, 2 September 2008.

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Nicholas Farrelly
Dr Nicholas Farrelly is the co-founder of New Mandala. A graduate of the Australian National University and the University of Oxford, over the past 20 years he has undertaken research in Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, China and India. Nicholas is Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania and formerly the Associate Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University, where he also led the ANU Myanmar Research Centre from 2015 to 2017.
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