Taksin was prime minister when both of these things took place. He was the leader of the country, nothing was initiated unless Thaksin approved it….
In a democratic country he would have been impeached and convicted for such atrocities!
Instead he was prosecuted for some economical stuff…
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I doubt he will get any support from the thousands of left behind family and friends of the 2500 extrajudicially executed after the «war on drugs» campaign. And Im pretty sure the ditto left behinds of the 84 killed in the Tak Bai incident also will be a bit questionous about this claim…
Kill a few traffickers wont matter much as long as…..
There is a demand for such drugs - there will always be someone making/producing such drugs and then traffickers to distribute the drugs….
Of course its possible! People do visaruns all the time, stamp out of TH, stamp in to Lao-stamp out of Lao and back and into TH again - in less than an hour.
Costs 40 USD for a Laos visa though.
So why dont spend some time in Laos?
«Four year plans» I think I can recall a little from history lessons in school where a few other countries also had «4 year plans». If my memory serves me right it wasnt of the most economic succsesfully countries that had such plans….????????
No its not as it was before the bridge was opened. Now the Immigration and Customs for both Thailand and Laos is at each end of the bridge and the bridge is approx 15 kms kms away from Chiang Khong and similar distance from Huay Xai…
Crossing from Chiang Khong to Huay Xai shouldnt be any problem. I guess only the transport to the bridge from Chiang Khong and from the bridge to Huay Xai can be a bit problemstic as both distances are quite far….