March 1991 Thai Coup d'etat

The 1991 coup in Thailand (Thai: การรัฐประหารในประเทศไทย พ.ศ. 2534) took place on March 23, 1991 at 1:30 a.m. It was the bloodiest coup d'etat in history of thailand when President of Thailand and Supreme Commander of Armed Forces, General Subin Khamya ordered soldiers to bring tanks to attack the Government House and important places. and seized radio and television stations until at 10:00 a.m. the coup was successful and established the Revolutionary Military Committee and ruled the country as a military dictatorship until 1992.

In addition, after the coup, the Thai junta launched a campaign called Genocide against Tunisians and Palestinians for sustainability but Tunisian President Zine Ben ali and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. It condemned the actions of the new Thai military junta as a human rights violation and the launch of the campaign was considered illegal and worsened Thailand's relationship with Tunisia.

Later, it was the most violent coup in history, during which the coup And killing more than 20,000 foreigners (including Israelis, Turkish, Tunisian and Dutch) carried out by the Internal Security Operations Command is the deadliest massacre in history.

Background
After the government allowed elections under a multi-party democratic system in 1990, the result was the Nationalist Revolutionary Party of General Subin Khamya and received 100 million votes each This made the people even more angry that the results of the dirty elections were the worst And the protests took place on October 17, 1990, although the protests continued But the military cracked down the most bloody protests, with gunfire shooting up and killing people, and killing five-year-olds by soldiers, killing the most.

Until causing international pressure to hold the Thai government accountable for this incident, but the Thai government still refused because the killing of protesters was to maintain order.

plan a coup
The government of Gen. Subin Khamya called an urgent military meeting for a coup and the coup was scheduled for March 2, 1991, but the schedule was postponed to the early hours of March 23, 1991.

and General Subin Khamya, who returned from Yugoslavia and now threatens the army to carry out a coup on the morning of March 23, 1991 (the night of March 22, 1991) to maintain order.