Thailand’s army declared martial law “to keep peace and order” on Tuesday, but denied this was the latest phase of a slow-motion coup driven by the country’s traditional elite.
Soldiers were deployed on Bangkok’s streets, at television stations and around a large pro-government protest site outside the city, as commanders called for calm and insisted this wasn’t the military’s 19th effort to oust civilian politicians since 1932.
The move appears to be a boost to establishment-backed street protesters’ efforts to install an unelected junta to rule the country, after six months of periodically violent political crisis that have paralysed government and damaged southeast Asia’s second-largest economy.
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