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Democracy on the Streets of Hong Kong
Duke Oishi and Zuri Bender highlight Think Tech coverage of the protests in Hong Kong over universal suffrage.
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It's as if coup-makers are avatars - they never die, but keep reincarnating into another group of coup-makers.
The 2006 coup led to an optimistic drafting of the 2007 charter, which also managed to get people's blessings via a referendum. Yet this so-called people's charter ended up being unceremoniously ditched by the 2014 coup-makers.
Many have started doubting if there's such a thing as democratic progress in the Kingdom, as 82 years have passed since the 1932 revolt ended absolute monarchy and yet the powers that be have not been able to come up with a genuine social contract that can bind us all.
The 13 coups and 19 constitutions through the eight decades of Thai parliamentary democracy is testimony to the fact that the country does not have a "highest law", as one constitution after another keeps being trashed and rewritten.
Still, some remain disturbingly optimistic that the current point in the cycle of Thai politics could lead to a lasting constitution. It is as if they choose to forget that we have all been through this several times and that there's no guarantee that it will, this time around, bring about a different result.
They also seem to forget that people gave up their lives in May 1992 fighting for the charter to stipulate that only elected MPs be allowed to become prime ministers, now that the new junta-sponsored charter may allow a non-MP become prime minister.
On the other end of the spectrum, some people - tired of this vicious cycle - have abandoned any pretence of wanting to support a democratic system. Now these people are saying that democracy seems to be unsuitable for Thailand as most of the less educated, poor people are just not critical or independent enough to be accorded the right to vote. They are also calling on the junta leader to sit in the prime minister's seat for several more years.
Clearly this group lacks the patience necessary to nurture a democratic system, and are more than ready to call for another military intervention every time there is a political crisis - be it for real or imagined cases of corruption and abuse of power.
Democracy cannot take root if we kept uprooting it. The tree that is democracy may be far from perfect, but it needs time to be nurtured. Democracy is the only system that allows for people to be counted, instead of being taken for granted by dictators in their "happy" televised speeches.
Thailand will be able to escape the cyclical notion of political time if it learns from its past mistakes and musters enough perseverance to allow a democratic system to deal with crisis instead of letting the military intervene.
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Democracy cannot flourish if it keeps getting uprooted
Pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong raised yellow umbrellas and walked out of a parliamentary session Wednesday when Chief Secretary Carrie Lam said the government was sticking with a proposal to pre-screen candidates for the city's 2017 election.
Wednesday's walkout signaled support for protests that have crippled the city since late last year, after the plan was introduced. The plan would subject would-be candidates to pre-screening by a committee that opponents say is biased toward the Beijing communist government.
Lam said in her address Wednesday that constitutional development must be built on the basis of the Beijing-backed plan. The pro-democracy supporters -- who use the yellow umbrellas as their symbol of solidarity -- are calling for free elections that would let the city choose its own leadership without Beijing's control.
On December 31, Hong Kong police arrested 12 protesters as pro-democracy demonstrators returned to the Mong Kok neighborhood that hundreds had occupied for more than two months.
Police said Thursday they used pepper spray and batons in overnight clashes and arrested demonstrators on charges ranging from assaulting a police officer to failing to produce proof of identity.
It was the first sizeable rally since the last protest camp was cleared out on December 15.
At its peak, the so-called Occupy protest movement attracted tens of thousands of demonstrators, presenting an unprecedented challenge to Beijing's rule of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong, a former British colony, was returned to China in 1997. As a semiautonomous Chinese territory, its citizens still enjoy many freedoms not allowed on the mainland.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Four years after its Jasmine Revolution sparked the Arab Spring, Tunisia's new democratic government is a beacon of stability in a North African region seized by terrorism and unrest.
"Today we have a parliament, we have a president and we are forming a government," outgoing Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa said in an interview Tuesday with UPI. "I came here to work for that moment. And we succeeded in the transition. We succeeded in the elections."
Jomaa assumed the role of interim prime minister in 2014 as part of that transition. Charged with forming an interim government, Jomaa played an instrumental role, ensuring smooth parliamentary and presidential elections and economic reforms.
His successor, Habib Essid, named Monday, will work with the nation's first freely elected president, Beji Caid Essebsi, to shepherd the fledgling democracy from political transition to economic revival, while continuing to hold off terrorist threats from neighboring Libya.
After the presidential election, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pointed to Tunisia as a model for the region.
"Tunisia has provided a shining example to the region and the world of what can be achieved through dedication to democracy, consensus, and an inclusive political process," he said.
Jomaa was in Washington, D.C., this week to meet with the heads of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which have supported the goals of the revolution, and review Tunisia's economic performance over the past year. One success, he pointed out, is a "drastic" reduction in Tunisia's deficit. The short-lived interim government also made some progress in banking reforms, but "we need three or four more years."
Beyond the economy, Tunisia's two new leaders face some criticism for having ties to previous regimes. Essebsi, the newly elected president, served as interior minister in the 1960s, and Jomaa's successor, Essid, served in the ousted government of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Jomaa downplayed concern about Essid, saying he "was not a big figure in that regime," adding: "If you want to succeed, you don't want to exclude."
"I don't think that we have the risk [of regressing]... but we have to pay attention because it's a young democracy... If I see any risk, I will say it."
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Four years after Arab Spring, Tunisian leader celebrates democracy