Shinawatra’s looming trial in Thailand and Ibrahim’s repeat conviction in Malaysia lack even the fig leaf of judicial independence. Shinawatra’s overthrow by the military was clearly a bid by the country’s generals to end by force the electoral lock that she and her brother, Thaksin Shinawatra – himself a former prime minister who was deposed by a military coup in 2006 – have had on Thailand for almost 15 years.
泰国即将到来的英拉审判和马来西亚易卜拉欣的再度定罪甚至连司法独立的遮羞布也不要了。英拉被军方推翻显然是泰国将军们用武力结束英拉及其兄他信近15年来在泰国选举制度中不可撼动局面的措施。他信本人亦曾担任总理，2006年被军事政变推翻。