New York Times (October 14)
2016/ 10/ 15 by jd in Global News
“He was a curious amalgam of modern and feudal: an American-born, Swiss-educated king who could not be criticized under Thailand’s stern lèse-majesté laws…. Perhaps it was because he was all these things that King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died on Thursday at age 88, became the personification of Thai nationhood in his 70-year reign. And that is also why his passing is so troubling to his country and its allies.”
