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 or March 23 Massacre.

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.

Launch coup
At 1:00 a.m. on March 23, 1991, General Subin Khamya ordered the soldiers to bring tanks to invade important places And at 1:45 a.m., General Subin Khamya ordered the military to seize the Royal Thai Army Television Channel 5 and all television stations, including all radio stations At 02.10, General Subin Khamya ordered the soldiers to invade the Egyptian Embassy in Thailand At 02.55, all television stations reported the coup incident and people protested against the coup At 03.00, all television and radio stations canceled their regular programs and switched to patriotic songs At 03.10, General Subin Khamya announced the Order of the Revolutionary Council No. 1 on the seizure of power to rule the country At 4:00 a.m., up to 2,000 people were killed in clashes between protesters and soldiers 05.00 hrs. General Sunthorn Kongsompong, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces has announced the Order of the Revolutionary Council No. 2 on the care of foreigners in Thailand At 05.30, General Subin Khamya ordered the military to seize the building of the Mass Communication Organization of Thailand or Channel 9 MCOT At 6 a.m., General Subin Khamya declared martial law on radio and television and announced that the government had now been repealed At 6:20 a.m. Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali denounced the actions of the Thai army and the coup as unacceptable and would not invite Tunisian representatives to meet with the Thai government until democracy returned to Thailand At 6:30 AM, Syrian President Haffez al-assad denounced the coup and that it was unacceptable At 7:00 a.m., clashes between protesters and soldiers led to violence and tens of thousands of deaths At 07.20 a.m., General Suchinda Kraprayoon, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, announced the Order of the Revolutionary Council No. 3 on the enforcement of martial law At 08.10, Anand Panyarachun announced the order of the Revolutionary Council on the abolition of the constitution At 9:00 a.m., General Suchinda Kraprayoon announced the order of the Revolutionary Council on the establishment of an interim constitution At 09.50, General Subin Khamya announced the Order of the Revolutionary Council. All television and radio stations will start broadcasting regular programs at 12.00 and the order of the Revolutionary Council will be announced again at 15.00 At 10 a.m., the soldiers succeeded in the coup At 11:00 a.m., General George Ugarte announced that there would be a celebration of the success of the coup At 12 noon, all radio and television stations resumed regular broadcasting after the coup was announced and regular programming was suspended for 10 hours At 3 p.m., General Subin Khamya announced the Order of the Revolutionary Council on democratic reform At 4:00 p.m., all radio and television stations began to broadcast regular programs again.

after coup
After the coup was successful, there were democratic reforms.