<div> <div>As a model for its ongoing reconciliation efforts, the Thai junta will follow the amnesty programme for communists implemented during the Cold War.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Thai government has made political reconciliation a policy priority, to resolve chronic unrest between different political movements.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Plans include a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to be signed by various political parties and movements in acknowledgement of a promise to build peaceful relationships with each other. </div></div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>As Thai citizens, we are writing to make clear that the military junta's Interim Constitution does not represent our will, nor does it represent the will of the Thai people as a whole. It is no one's rules, but the junta's own. We regard the Interim Constitution as Thailand's most anti-democratic constitution in half a century. We condemn it emphatically on three points.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>1. The Interim Constitution is an attempt to entrench dictatorial rule in a permanent constitution, and force-feed it to the population. </strong></div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>HM the King on Tuesday granted an audience to Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha, the leader of the junta’ s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), and endorsed the interim constitution, presented by the NCPO leader, according to Thailand’s Public Relations Department.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The interim charter’s Article 48 grants an amnesty for the coup makers and their subordinates.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Today (Tuesday) is the two-month anniversary of the military coup.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>The latest round of Thai political crisis, which ended with a coup d'etat, started with the controversial blanket amnesty bill, supported by the leading Pheu Thai party and also about to end with the manesty.</div> </div> </div> <div> </div>