March 3, 2006

Thai Prime Minister Assails His Academic Critics as Ignorant

By MARTHA ANN OVERLAND

Irked by university professors and students who want him to step down, Thailand's prime minister said in February that the academics attacking him were ignorant about the subjects they teach.

"For example, they teach political science, but instead they encourage people to damage the democratic regime," the prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, told a group of supporters. "I was surprised and left wondering if they understood the subject. ... What the lecturers did is senseless and will

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