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Serious Will Thai King Vajiralongkorn Break Curse of Taksin?

Thai Kings of the Chakri dynasty do have Chinese ancestors. The King preceeding the present dynasty was Taksin who was half Chinese, half Thai, and adopted by Thai nobility.

Taksin was born on April 17, 1734 in Ayutthaya. His father, Hai-Hong (Thai:ไหฮอง), who worked as a tax-collector, was a Teochew Chinese immigrant with from Chenghai County. His mother, Lady Nok-lang (Thai:นกเอี้ยง), was Thai (and was later awarded the title of Somdet Krom Phra Phithak Thephamat). Taksin's original Chinese name was Cheng Chao (in Chinese : 郑昭 Zheng Zhao)

Impressed by the boy, Chao Phraya Chakri (Mhud), who was the Samuhanayok (prime minister) in King Boromakot's reign, adopted him and gave him the Thai name Sin, meaning "money or property". When he was 7, he was assigned to a monk named Tongdee to began his education in a Buddhist monastery called Wat Kosawas (later Wat Choeng Thar). After 7 years of education he was sent by his stepfather to serve as a royal page, he studied Chinese, Annamese, and Indian languages with diligence and soon he was able to converse in them with fluency.

The name Taksin was adopted when he was made governor of Tak province. King Taksin's achievements were remarkable. He quelled internal rebellion, suppressed border intrusions by Cambodians, attacks by Burmese, subdued Vientiane and Chiang Mai and helped to unify Thailand. He was honoured in 1981 by the Thai Cabinet as "Taksin the Great".



Although warfare took up most of King Taksin's time, he paid a great deal of attention to politics, administration, economy, and the welfare of the country. He promoted trade and fostered relations with foreign countries including China, Britain and the Netherlands. He had roads built and canals dug. Apart from restoring and renovating temples, the king attempted to revive literature, and various branches of the arts such as drama, painting, architecture and handicrafts. He also issued regulations for the collection and arrangement of various texts to promote education and religious studies.

Towards the end of the reign, there was trouble in Thon Buri, which was then called Chao Phraya San. Somdet Chao Phraya Maha Kasatsuhk hurried back from his campaign in Cambodia, held an investigation, and let the officials decide on appropriate punishment for King Taksin.Then the people asked the Somdet Chao Phraya to take the throne and rule the country. Another story was that Chao Phraya usurped the throne by accusing Taksin of being Chinese. However, this version does not hold water because the General himself was half Chinese and was married to Taksin's daughter.

King Taksin was put to death on April 6,1782 at the age of 48 after a 15-year reign. After he was executed, his remains were buried at Wat (Temple) Bang Yireua Tai, in 1785, King Rama I (Buddha Yodfa) had the remains disinterred and cremated at the same temple. A tomb containing King Taksin's clothes and a family shrine were found at Ching Hai district in Taechiew province in China in 1921. It is believed that a decendant of King Taksin the Great must have sent his clothes to be buried there to conform to Chinese practice. This supports the claim that the place was his father's hometown.

Extracts from :
http://www.wangdermpalace.com/kingtaksi ... great.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taksin

The first king of the Chakri dynasty was a half-Chinese. Like most royalties, in-breeding was encouraged among members of the Thai royal family. However, most royal relatives and aristocrats are ethnic Thais. Hence subsequent Kings are mixed Thai and Chinese.

Today, power is distributed among the palace officials who had a stake in commercial interests owned by the monarchy and assert strong influence over the power play in parliamentary politics. Some of these powers that be are not Chinese nor do they want to be identified as such. Thai customary practices are in fact more Indianised than Chinese. Thai royal language is very similar to Khmer, an old language. Most Thais are jittery as they had been foretold about the curse of the Chakri dynasty which may not last beyond Rama IX (the present King Bhumiphol). Will there be a new dynasty or will the monarchy be dissolved?
 
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THE full extent of the crisis in Thailand's royal family has been revealed in leaked US embassy cables, which report that the revered king is suffering from Parkinson's disease and depression, and that his heir, the crown prince, may be HIV-positive.

According to the secret documents -- written over six years by US diplomats, including ambassadors to Bangkok -- Thailand will face a "moment of truth" after the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, whose son, Maha Vajiralongkorn, is regarded as his most likely successor. "It is hard to underestimate the political impact of the uncertainty surrounding the inevitable succession crisis which will be touched off once King Bhumibol passes," reads one cable from 2009, by James Entwistle, the US charge d'affaires.

Others discuss the possibility that the death of the 83-year-old king will be followed by a military coup or a succession crisis in which the prince's claim to the throne is challenged by the queen or his older sister, Princess Sirindhorn

A cable written soon after his indisposition in 2009 by Eric John, the US ambassador at the time, cites embassy sources who said the king was "beset long-term by Parkinson's, depression and chronic lower back pain".

Thai Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban is quoted as telling a US diplomat that the problem was the king's mental health. "Suthep confirmed . . . that King Bhumibol exhibits classic symptoms of depression (and) that the really (sic) worry was his state of mind, depressed at the state of affairs in his kingdom at the end of his life".

King Bhumibol's frailty adds to anxiety about the 58-year-old prince. Mr John reported that the prince was "long known for violent and unpredictable mood swings", and "has spent most (up to 75 per cent) of the past two years based in Europe (primarily at a villa at a medicinal spa 20km outside Munich), with his leading mistress and beloved white poodle Fufu".

One cable recounts that the dog was named after an air chief marshal. Another suggests that "people would have a difficult time accepting his current wife, Princess Srirasmi, as their queen, based largely on a widely distributed salacious video of the birthday celebration for Fufu, in which Princess Srirasmi appears wearing nothing more than a G-string".

Most startling is the credence that Mr John gives to the rumour about the crown prince being treated for a life-threatening illness. In 2009, he wrote: "Vajiralongkorn is believed to be suffering from a blood-related medical condition (varying sources claim he is either: HIV-positive; has hepatitis C; is afflicted by a rare form of 'blood cancer' or some combination which leads to regular blood transfusions)."
 
THAI KING CHIOBU EX WIFEY IN HOuSE ARREST!

So the king has crowned himself and the newspapers and local media are full of concocted stories and news about the him and his many “achievements.” Nothing critical, nothing really truthful and no body count.

A couple of days ago we mentioned Srirasmi’s ousting from the palace when the prince tired of her and how nasty and vicious it was. We added that she was in imposed seclusion and that several members of her family have served jail terms.

The German newspaper Bild has taken up her situation and has released some photos that confirm rumors that have been around for more than a year, that have her under house arrest and treated so badly that it is almost unimaginable. Yet, as some have said, she’s lucky to be alive, and we guess her former spouse thinks that way as well. The Bild story is behind a paywall.There’s also a short Facebook post by the newspaper which states:

Thailand has a new king – and this one is unceremoniously himself as part of a solemn ceremony in the great palace of the capital of Bangkok. As magnificent as the coronation was, the stories of the disgraced ex-wife: Srirasmi … is supposed to be under house arrest. What this one should look like, show these pictures.

Thanks to Andrew MacGreogor Marshall at his Facebook page, we have some of the photos of her torment.



Her house is made as unpleasant as possible. And, she’s not permitted to use an indoor bathroom.



The sign tells her she has to now learn the meaning of “sufficiency.” It seems the king can even channel his father to increase her torment.

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Srirasmi no money Liao in house arrest!

BREAKING—German newspaper Bild publishes alleged photograph of King Vajiralongkorn’s previous wife Srirasmi Suwadee under house arrest in Ratchaburi

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Inside the sprawling Dhaveevatthana Palace in Bangkok is a prison built to lock up those betraying the trust of the new Thai king, Vajiralongkorn. On March 27, 2012, during the Yingluck Shinawatra administration, the Ministry of Justice issued an order regarding the construction of a prison within Dhaveevatthana Palace on a 60-sq.-meter plot of land. Named Buddha Monthon Temporary Prison, it is under the authority of the Klong Prem Central Prison.
The Dhaveevatthana prison has been officially legalized, therefore permitting King Vajiralongkorn to imprison anyone under its roof legally. Some of his close confidants have been imprisoned there, from Suriyan Sucharitpolwong (better known as Moh Yong) to police Maj. Prakrom Warunprapha and Maj. Gen. Phisitsak Seniwongse na Ayutthaya. They were behind Vajiralongkorn’s “Bike for Mom” campaign in 2015, but were later found guilty of embezzling the project’s funds. All died in the Dhaveevatthana prison under mysterious circumstances.


The latest high-profile inmate was Police Gen. Jumpol Manmai, a former deputy national police chief. The palace branded him as an extremely evil official. Exactly how Jumpol managed to upset the king remains unknown.
Dhaveevatthana Palace was once a residence of Vajiralongkorn, his former consort, Princess Srirasmi and their son, Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti, who is currently the heir presumptive to the throne. After his divorce from Srirasmi in December 2014, Vajiralongkorn has rarely returned to Dhaveevatthana Palace. He resides mostly in the outskirts of Munich, Germany, with Dipangkorn.
Meanwhile, Srirasmi has been stripped of all royal titles and placed under house arrest in a mansion in Ratchaburi. Her head has been shaved and she is forced to wear white like a nun. Her parents were charged with exploiting the name of Vajiralongkorn for personal gain. They were imprisoned but recently released.
Apart from serving as a residence of Vajiralongkorn, Dhaveevatthana Palace also houses a military school for young cadets registered under the Rachawallop Army. Vajiralongkorn has maintained a vast praetorian guard, known in Thai as the Rachawallop unit, since 1978. Supposedly in place to ensure his security and perform charitable works, the Rachawallop unit is often seen as a counter to the official military. Today, the Rachawallop unit consists of around 5,500 members. New recruits are trained in the school inside Dhaveevatthana Palace.
Officially, Dhaveevatthana Palace is known as a villa where Vajiralongkorn can relax, experiment with different kinds of plants and sponsor agricultural developmental projects along the lines of those seen within Chitralada Palace that were spearheaded by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej. On the palace grounds there is a man-made lake and an area to park his private planes.
Behind the official description of Dhaveevatthana Palace, however, lie countless horror stories. In the past month I conducted email interviews with a number of individuals, including some who were once locked up inside the prison. Their accounts and experiences of having to serve time there were almost surreal.
Known among inmates as “hell on Earth,” the Dhaveevatthana prison can be a torture chamber. Military officers found to be disloyal to Vajiralongkorn have been instructed to retake their arduous military training. Both Jumpol and Disathorn Vajarodaya — the latter was King Bhumibol’s close assistant — re-entered military training at Dhaveevatthana Palace. Photos of them undergoing training were deliberately leaked to social media as part of their humiliation for betraying Vajiralongkorn.
It is difficult, or even impossible, for anyone to publicly reveal the dark reality of inside the Dhaveevatthana prison. Rumors thus play an important part in revealing just how ruthless King Vajiralongkorn can be to his enemies. Last December, The Telegraph published an account of Rupert Christiansen, who was a classmate of Vajiralongkorn back in the late 1960s at Millfield School in England. (The story can be found at jtim.es/NFUJ30cffAM .)
According to Christiansen, nobody wanted Vajiralongkorn as their friend. The matron “found him to be a bore and stared blankly into the middle distance as he prattled on.” Vajiralongkorn “wasn’t clever or in any teams. …” “But what marked him most was his enthusiasm for the Combined Cadet Force, a Friday afternoon misery that everyone else loathed.”
Christiansen emphasized that Vajiralongkorn became a vile bully. Anyone who showed signs of weakness or fear could be “mercilessly pounced on” by him. According to Christiansen, Vajiralongkorn picked on one student in particular. He would “pat him affably on the back and chortle cheerily at his fatuous attempts at jokes before savagely mocking, punching and pinching him.” His notorious past can now be used to explain his tendency toward violence in the present day.
Although upgraded as a legal temporary prison, Dhaveevatthana is not open to the public for visiting inmates. The lack of information about the prison could be a factor in allowing the torture and humiliation of prisoners to be condoned. Successive governments have dared not interfere in what is perceived as Vajiralongkorn’s private affairs. Human rights agencies and the media in the country have remained silent. Even the relatives of deceased inmates appear to be satisfied by the listed causes of death. Shortly after inmates are pronounced dead, they are normally cremated quickly.
After parading around in a skimpy tank top with a mistress in a Munich department store, Vajiralongkorn was furious when the video clip of him went viral on the internet. He demanded Facebook block certain pages that shared the video clip. After that effort failed, the Thai state is now instead going after individuals in Thailand who watched the video clip.
It is surreal to realize that a modern-day monarch can behave as if he is in the medieval era. The existence of the Dhaveevatthana prison has effectively become a symbol of Vajiralongkorn’s cruel reign.
Pavin Chachavalpongpun is an associate professor at Kyoto University’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
 
This Thai king will be the last one. Thais will end the monarchy because of the damage this king does to the country and its institutions.
 
Moral of the story: it doesn't matter how great a man you are... if your son is fucked up, your so-called 'legacy' probably won't last very long. :wink:
 
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