In Thailand, the biggest crime of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his supporters was to keep winning national elections with populist campaigns that threatened the interests of the country's long-established Bangkok-based elite. Serious wrongdoing, involving bribery and institutional corruption, no doubt occurred along the way; but the scale of such offenses could hardly justify last year's military coup and the subsequent repression.
在泰国，前总理他信及其支持者的最大罪名是利用民粹主义选战运动赢得国家大选，而他们的选战运动威胁到老牌曼谷精英的利益。当然，在此期间发生了严重的不当行为，包括贿赂和制度性腐败；但这些罪名根本不足以支撑去年的军事政变及随后的镇压。