Thai soldiers swooped to detain a former cabinet minister on Tuesday, May 27, after he emerged from hiding to become the first member of the ousted government to publicly denounce a military coup. Chaturon Chaisang, education minister under the government of Yingluck Shinawatra, was marched out of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand by soldiers. The veteran politician criticized the coup organizers as “inexperienced” and warned of the potential of the army to “be more cruel than you might expect.” Chaisang had disobeyed an order for all officials to report to the military junta. Since formalizing the coup on May 22, the Thai military has ordered a ban on broadcast media as well as political gatherings. It has however reduced curfew hours to midnight until 4 am. Previously it had been 10 pm until 5 am. On Monday, the military junta said they received the Thai King’s blessing.
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