[NCUC-DISCUSS] Coup or No Coup

[Poomjit Sirawongprasert]

Hi,

I'm Moui from Thailand.  I used to be join the ICANN #49 in Singapore and
had good chance to know some of NCUC members there.  Besides, I had meet
Bill and Avi again during ITU meeting in Dubai two years ago.

I may contribute pretty less to the NCUC community but I keep eyes close to
what all of you guys have been doing and discussing.  The reason for unable
to contribute to the international community much just because I still have
to help my country ICT many issues.

Some of you may have or haven't heard of Thailand's Coup in 2006, but let
me brief, for us - the Thai internet users, that coup ruined all of the
institutes.  In term of ICT, the huge amount of internet censorship had
been increasing in the unbelievable figures, no need to mention to arrest a
lot of people who posted content against to the coup.

Time flies, but the thought of tyrant remains.  Two weeks ago, the group of
protestors seized one of our largest IDC building, it can be said that it
is our national international internet gateway located.  What they did to
the building was cut off the whole building electric for 3 hours, but it
took another 6 hours to recover the power generator (as they also destroy
the reserved generator.  Thus, Thailand lost some of the IIG many hours.
Some of the ISPs have their own alternative IIG to reroute but those were
bottleneck.

The mobs are now still on the streets and announce that they will shutdown
Bangkok, their D-Day will be 13th Jan. But lots of rumors are widely spread
that our military 'may' coup before the date.

It sounds non-sense for me to write down the story to all of you. But I'm
really worried about the coup by army (if happened but who know if they
won't do it).  They will, again, seize all communication channel, TV,
radio, and internet.  I can smell the strong internet censorship again (if
coup).  If my bad dream comes true, I may have to ask help from you - the
technologist - to give us the hands.

Lastly, lots of tanks are brought into the heart of Bangkok since 2 days
ago. No one else knows what will happen.  I don't want to see the second
Syria in my own country.  Sad indeed.

Thanks for listening.  Wish I could join you again in next ICANN meeting in
Singapore.

Poomjit Sirawongprasert (Moui)
ภูมิจิต ศิระวงศ์ประเสริฐ (หมวย)
twitter: @Moui <http://twitter.com/moui>
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