General Prayuth Chan-ocha, the head of the Thai Army, having just three days earlier urged all parties to act within constitutional limits, on 28 February hinted at the possibility of resorting to 'a special method' to resolve the political crisis in Thailand, now in its fourth month.
He declared that 'one can envisage that the situation might end up with a coup…I admit it would not be legal. But every coup is meant to end a crisis.'
General Prayuth's declaration is doubly significant.