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    How will Thailand's amnesty bill row end?

    in Thailand News

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    Refreshing to see that at last Mr.Head has done some homework rather than just trotting out the ludicrous phrai(poor folk led by benevolent genius self made millionaire Thaksin) against amart(educated Thais) nonsense that he ruffled so many feathers with back in 2010. I wonder what Dan Rivers has to say about this latest struggle, now that he is more distanced from Jakrapob.

    I think JH is one of the more knowledgeable BBC correspondents. He didn't cover 2010, think he left Thailand in 09 after a spurious LM charge was brought against him. You must be thinking of Alistair Leithead, who, although a newcomer to Thailand, didn't do that bad of a job in 2010 imo. He was one of the only correspondents to film the MiB in action btw. In fact, I think the only footage of the MiB after April 10, other than that which CNN later obtained, is that filmed by the BBC.

    Regards your last sentence, yes, Jakrapob is homosexual, but so far as I know, Rivers isn't and is married to an Australian woman (not a Thai from the NE, as alleged by IIRC, Sondhi, in 2010). Even if he were, Jakrapob was in Cambodia during 2010, so I'm not convinced that would've swayed Rivers, even if I agreed Rivers was biased, which I don't.

    Leifhead told us he saw a man waving a handgun which was so surprising as hardly any thais own hand guns now do they?

    He now reports from Hollywood. Maybe he's gay because he doesn't seem to have any purpose at the BBC.

    He was parachuted in by the BBC to Bangkok and appeared clueless unlike the lady BBC reporter( I forget her name) who is here and is excellent .

    What a piece of work you are

    First you try to diminish the fact that a reporter showed that the red shirts were armed

    Then you attempt to diminish his stature by calling him "gay" and "clueless"

    Then you attempt to give credibility to a complete numpty who sat there while the red shirts called for burning Bangkok Sirirach Hospital, alll the moslem mosques and reported it as a giant tea party?

    Pathetic

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    Pheu Thai seeks dissolution of Democrat Party

    in Thailand News

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    Is this the man who was suspended from politics for 5 years for attempting to hand over part of Thailand to Cambodia illegally?

    The same man who seems to serve as Thaksin's personal butler?

    I'm sure his lawyering skills perfectly up to the job.

    PTP is saying that the opposition is not permited to oppose the bill? That's a strange type of democracy for sure!!

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    Thaksin says amnesty bill unfairly distorted by his political opponents

    in Thailand News

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    Mister Thaksin,

    Please explain how, exactly, you were PM when the tanks rollled?

    Thanks in anticipation

    Please explain how you think the status of the caretaker PM affects the fact that the Army stopped the entire Thai electorate from voting in a royally endorsed election due to be held on October 15th 2006? As head of his political party and in between elections he was caretaker PM. There was no political "vacuum".

    Thaksin resigned as PM and went on holiday.

    He subsequently complains that he was hard done by by the coup

    I ask how he thinks he was PM at the time

    You go off an a complete tangent

    Keep on track!!!

    CNN interview: Yingluck says she not relying on Thaksin

    in Thailand News

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    What an amazingly slanted non-interview. In only four plus minutes CNN reduced their position on Thai politics to a single issue; that the PM should be judged according to gender-friendly criteria as opposed to performance.

     

    And not once did they mention that 'Big Brother' was convicted criminal and a fugitive from the the law. They merely said he was 'in exile' as if he was a noble victim of some terribly unfair political persecution.

     

    Puts CNN's sense of journalistic objectivity deeply in question....again.

     

    They also failded to mention that T was unlawfully overthrown by an illegal coup and that the general that led that coup,

    Sonthi Boonyaratglin,

     is in favor of amnesty. But nooo, TV expert pundit posters who are foreigners know better than the general that led the coup. This is truly Amazing.

    How can you be overthrown if you're not PM?

    Sonthi is seeking to give himself amnesty - again. Busted flush.

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    Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's speech on the amnesty bill

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    Nothing is wrong in applying the law.

    Then, at the same time, nobody should cry foul when Abhisit and Suthep are brought to court with murder charges. Its just fair game... If you want one side to have a hard time, how can you expect that side not to reciprocate?

    But going on with years of court cases will not deliver any quick and much needed fix to the deadlock.

    I am not in favor of seing Abhisit and Suthep be pardoned for the death of 90 people. However, I think that the amnesty is the best way out to stop fighting.

    After years of fighting, street protests and mob rule, I am surprised that some people still did not come to their sense.

    It is just anger that drives the present protests again. It has nothing to do with the future of the country.

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    The suspicion is that Abhisit & Suthep are only being charged, in order to pressure them to go along with Thaksin's amnesty, that they actually want to clear themselves of the charges suggests to me that they think they have a good case. At least they haven't done a runner, either. wink.png

    So it's not "fair game", it's blackmail of his opponents, by the Big Boss. Or 'fighting for justice', as the Red-Shirts used to claim. Pity that the amnesty is selling-out their dead & injured, eh ? sad.png

    The way to avoid many years of court cases is to speed up the trials, for example Thaksin might (but won't) return, to enable all the other cases against him to proceed at last.

    And if coming to their senses means accepting the S-clan dictatorship, I'm personally quite glad, that some people are still fighting against the amnesty.

    Thaksin convicted by his enemies.

    Abhisit convicted by his enemies.

    The game is fair rolleyes.gif

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    Except that Abhisit has not yet been convicted, as Thaksin was in 2008, in the first of several cases to be concluded.

    and I would add to that that Abhisit has had the courage and moral high ground to stay in Thailand and not flee to other countries pulling monkey faces at democracy and shit-stirring the nation

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    Commerce minister says China still wants to trade Thai rice for Chinese trains

    in Thailand News

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    "Minister of Commerce Niwatthamrong Bunsongphaisan asserted on Monday the Chinese government remained interested in exchanging Chinese high-speed trains for Thai rice."

    Actually, I remain interested in having a night with Ronaldo's girlfriend.

    Indeed. I'm encouraged.....

    I think I shall pop down to the Maserati showroom on Vipavhadi and ask if I can exchnage a few bags of rice for one of their nice shiny cars

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