Surapon Nitikraipot, Rector of Thammasat University, has spoken in a public forum in defence of the 2006 coup and its resulting constitution.  He argued that anti-coup activists should have also opposed the 1997 Constitution, as it resulted from a coup in 1991.  As a law professor himself, he said that there were no double standards in prosecuting the red and yellow shirts, except that the cases were being handled sooner or later.