Ex-PM fires back at Prayut after his encounter with another Yingluck

[webfact]

Ex-PM fires back at Prayut after his encounter with another Yingluck

By The Nation

 

 

Former PM Yingluck Shinawatra has mocked the Prime Minister, who led the coup that overthrew her government, rhetorically asking whether “the ex-Army chief can remember my name”.

 

Via her Twitter account @PouYingluck, the self-exiled ex-premier retweeted Gen Prayut Chan-o-ch’s encounter on Monday during his field trip in Ranong province with an officer who happened to share the same name as her.

 

“This is a good name because this name used to be PM,” Prayut jokingly said to Yingluck the officer. “I don’t blame anyone. Just do the right things.”

 

Yingluck the ex-PM tweeted: “I heard that he [Prayut] told Yingluck to do the right things. I would like to ask the ex-Army chief whether he could still remember this name.”

 

She apparently referred to Prayut by his former title, the one he had while serving under the Yingluck government and subsequently led the military coup to oust her.

 

The online reaction from Yingluck, who usually maintains a composed manner, quickly spread around Twitter and was retweeted more than 1,600 times in just two hours.

 

Prayut and Yingluck have been at loggerheads ever since Yingluck was ousted in 2014, followed by the prosecution against her and her government colleagues for the its rice-pledging scheme, which resulted in her being handed a five-year prison sentence without suspension.

 

Yingluck pulled off a dramatic escape, however, failing to show up on the day of the Supreme Court’s ruling. It was later discovered that she had escaped from Thailand a few days before the day of the ruling, after which those who had helped her flee were only punished mildly.

 

Yingluck has kept a low profile for months, with photos of her only being occasionally released or leaked online, before recently turning becoming active online again.

 

She appears to spend most of time with her brother, also self-exiled ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra, who was jailed on corruption charges for two years in 2008. They have been photographed in several countries, mostly the United Kingdom and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

 

The Prayut government has vowed to bring the Shinawatra siblings back to Thailand to serve their prison sentences but so far, its efforts have not been fruitful, with Thaksin and Yingluck only wanted domestically.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30352610

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-08-21

[Small Joke]

Orange is the new black when the yellows stole the country from the reds using the green machine supported by the boys in brown. 

[BobBKK]

Good for her. He stole the PM job and history will not be kind to him.  Yingluck, Thailand's first elected female PM, will be remembered for stoically resisting the bullyboys.

[Baerboxer]

2 hours ago, BobBKK said:

Good for her. He stole the PM job and history will not be kind to him.  Yingluck, Thailand's first elected female PM, will be remembered for stoically resisting the bullyboys.

 

First elected party list female PM and first female PM to be removed by a court for an abuse of power; first to become a fugitive by fleeing from a court verdict after promising never to leave and fight to the death on the field of democracy.

 

Same same only female.

[rkidlad]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Yingluck pulled off a dramatic escape

Yes, she was driven from her home to the nearest border with no obstacles or hurdles. Very dramatic. Maybe they should make a road trip movie about it. 

[Thailand]

The mammoth in the room that still gives p sleepless nights.

[Lupatria]

3 hours ago, Small Joke said:

Orange is the new black when the yellows stole the country from the reds using the green machine supported by the boys in brown. 

Reads like an excerpt from a Carlos Castaneda book: "Memories of my last acid trip".

[Lupatria]

28 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

Yes, she was driven from her home to the nearest border with no obstacles or hurdles. Very dramatic. Maybe they should make a road trip movie about it. 

Title: "Houdini's Siamese Sister".

[sjaak327]

59 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

First elected party list female PM and first female PM to be removed by a court for an abuse of power; first to become a fugitive by fleeing from a court verdict after promising never to leave and fight to the death on the field of democracy.

 

Same same only female.

Fleeing from a court verdict that was never fair or just. Fighting for democracy is better done without subjecting yourself unlawfully to the care of the Junta, ask a few lesse majeste offenders. Oh shit you can't as they are not with us anymore...

 

I do one better, I believe she was the first PM to have been assisted out of the country to be a much more accurate description. Or do you still believe the Junta did not help her flee ?

 

In any case, good to see she is still ready to annoy Prayuth, even if it is from abroad, whilst the criminal Prayuth can stay in Thailand due to a self awarded amnesty, she looks like an angel compared to him. 

[flyingtlger]

 

Word is that Prayut started the thread, "I'm Being Blackmailed and want to prosecute this Stank"......?

[yellowboat]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

“I don’t blame anyone. Just do the right things.”

He still thinks he is the savior of Thailand yet he has accomplished virtually nothing. 

[wirat69]

43 minutes ago, sjaak327 said:

Fleeing from a court verdict that was never fair or just. Fighting for democracy is better done without subjecting yourself unlawfully to the care of the Junta, ask a few lesse majeste offenders. Oh shit you can't as they are not with us anymore...

 

I do one better, I believe she was the first PM to have been assisted out of the country to be a much more accurate description. Or do you still believe the Junta did not help her flee ?

Plead the 5th Amendment or stand guilty for contempt of Court... sounds like you missed your daily dose of salts this morning...

[sjaak327]

5 minutes ago, wirat69 said:

Plead the 5th Amendment or stand guilty for contempt of Court... sounds like you missed your daily dose of salts this morning...

 

No I did not, and this is not the United States, here the courts are not impartial. You seem a bit confused. Maybe stop taking what you are taking might help...

[kingstonkid]

If Thaksin and his puppet really feel that Thailand lacks their leadership why do they not come back and be legally involved?  They are so pure and forthright.  

 

If you feel that you have been done wrong then come back and face the p[eople.  Let the people and their courts decide what happens.

[holy cow cm]

2 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

If Thaksin and his puppet really feel that Thailand lacks their leadership why do they not come back and be legally involved?  They are so pure and forthright.  

 

If you feel that you have been done wrong then come back and face the p[eople.  Let the people and their courts decide what happens.

Seriously? Nothing is fair with the Junta powering the scenes. Even he the Bir P protected himself from persecution of wrong doing. 

[metisdead]

A post containing a disallowed reference to the PM has been removed. 

[mfd101]

33 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

Let the people and their courts decide what happens.

The people and THEIR courts? Oh rilly?

[holy cow cm]

2 minutes ago, mfd101 said:

The people and THEIR courts? Oh rilly?

Actually that came from kingstonkid post 14. I commented on it. It is an error

[KhunAussie52]

2 hours ago, Lupatria said:

Reads like an excerpt from a Carlos Castaneda book: "Memories of my last acid trip".

Actually it was Peyote, not LSD.....!!!

[Media1]

Nobody wants Prayut.and his not wanted.

[joecoolfrog]

1 hour ago, kingstonkid said:

If Thaksin and his puppet really feel that Thailand lacks their leadership why do they not come back and be legally involved?  They are so pure and forthright.  

 

If you feel that you have been done wrong then come back and face the p[eople.  Let the people and their courts decide what happens.

In your fantasy do the boys with the big guns promise not to get involved ?

[hansnl]

5 hours ago, BobBKK said:

Good for her. He stole the PM job and history will not be kind to him.  Yingluck, Thailand's first elected female PM, will be remembered for stoically resisting the bullyboys.

And her rice scheme maybe?

And other schemes........

[Oziex1]

1 hour ago, yellowboat said:

He still thinks he is the savior of Thailand yet he has accomplished virtually nothing. 

I would say absolutely nothing, not even the control of the lottery price.

[Just Weird]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Former PM Yingluck Shinawatra has mocked the Prime Minister, who led the coup that overthrew her government, rhetorically asking whether “the ex-Army chief can remember my name”.

 

She apparently referred to Prayut by his former title, the one he had while serving under the Yingluck government and subsequently led the military coup to oust her.

Come on, The Nation, the coup did not overthrow Yinglucks government, she was not the Prime Minister when the coup took place!   There was no military coup to oust her.

Edited August 21, 2018 by Just Weird

[from the home of CC]

She appears to spend most of time with her brother, also self-exiled ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra, who was jailed on corruption charges for two years in 2008.

 

must of missed that news.

[JAG]

8 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

Come on, The Nation, the coup did not overthrow Yinglucks government, she was not the Prime Minister when the coup took place!   There was no military coup to oust her.

Absolutely correct. And as I know that you are a stickler for such details, shall we remind those who may have overlooked the point that the  coup was instigated to forestall a completely constitutional election, which coincidentally Yingluck and the party she led was rather likely to win...

 

As you imply, it is so important to get these things right don't you agree?

Edited August 21, 2018 by JAG

[Odysseus123]

Please spare a thought for the junta apologists..you cruel things..

 

They hang themselves up in dark closets waiting for that shaft of sunshine to whisper "Thaksin..Thaksin.."

Then they must go about their duty..typing,typing and waiting for the day that someone shoves a plug of garlic up their nose and waves a crucifix in front of them.

T'is a ghastly fate.

 

[BobBKK]

29 minutes ago, hansnl said:

And her rice scheme maybe?

And other schemes........

Oh you mean the rice subsidy that the USA and Europe implement to help farmers?  and NOW Prayut implements?  imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  She wasn't a 'great PM' but she was /is loved by the people and if things were not controlled by the gun she would win by a landslide.

 

[Just Weird]

9 minutes ago, JAG said:

Absolutely correct. And as I know that you are a stickler for such details, shall we remind those who may have overlooked the point that the  coup was instigated to forestall a completely constitutional election, which coincidentally Yingluck and the party she led was rather likely to win...

 

As you imply, it is so important to get these things right don't you agree?

Yes, I do agree, but my pointing out a deliberately false statement on the part of The Nation is not being a "stickler for details", it is pointing out a very salient fact particularly when the subject of what was overthrown, or who was ousted, by the coup is not a matter of opinion it is factual history.

 

Your opinion about the election and you anticipation of the results in your comment is irrelevant to my point so I will neither agree or disagree with that.

Edited August 21, 2018 by Just Weird

[Odysseus123]

5 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

Oh you mean the rice subsidy that the USA and Europe implement to help farmers?  and NOW Prayut implements?  imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  She wasn't a 'great PM' but she was /is loved by the people and if things were not controlled by the gun she would win by a landslide.

 

She would, indeed.