Today, please pay attention to Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, who took power in Thailand on September 17, 1957 with the support of the army. Although it was not immediately apparent, this was much more than just another coup in a row in a country where the officers had played a key role in the political and economic life of the nation for decades. The overthrow of the regime of former Field Marshal Phibun Songkhram marked a turning point in Thai political history whose echoes reverberate to this day.

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Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat was a dictator who ruled between 1958 and 1963. He is the model for the special vision of 'democracy', the 'Thai-Style Democracy', as it is now prevailing again. We should actually call it paternalism.

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