Former Cambodian PM Hun Sen to visit Thaksin tomorrow

[snoop1130]

 

Former Cambodian PM Hun Sen is scheduled to travel to Bangkok tomorrow to visit Thaksin Shinawatra, at the latter’s residence in Ban Chan Song La, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thaksin’s youngest daughter confirmed today.

 

Hun Sen is worried about Thaksin’s condition and asked for a personal meeting with Thaksin, Paetongtarn said, adding Hun Sen will have lunch with Thaksin before returning to Phnom Penh.

 

Hun Sen once appointed Thaksin, who was in self-exile after the coup that deposed him at the time, as his economic adviser and, last year, Thaksin, together with his sister Yingluck, attended Hun Sen’s birthday party in Phnom Penh.

 

Tomorrow’s visit comes just five days after Thaksin was released on conditional on parole after serving a prison term on corruption charges, not a night of which was actually served in prison.

 

He spent only a few hours in the Bangkok Remand Prison before being transferred to Police General Hospital, where he remained for six months before being granted parole. He emerged from the hospital on Sunday wearing a neck brace and with his arm in a sling.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-02-20

 

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[JingerBen]

Partners in crime from way back.

The meeting will no doubt start with a benediction,  "Let us prey..."

[connda]

Tennis anyone?  🎾

[ikke1959]

Oh he was so serious ill... it appears he is recovering already

[bokningar]

2 examples of good non corrupt leaders

[lordgrinz]

Out of the hospital and now hosting parties for his friends, what a recovery!

[NanLaew]

Nothing to see here. Hun Sen is simply dropping by to collect on that loan before Thaksin carks it.

[TheFishman1]

Amazing Thailand TIT

[Shocked farang]

Hun Sen when he decided to quit, simply appointed his own son as prime minister, why things in Thailand have to be so complicated? LOL

[hotchilli]

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Hun Sen once appointed Thaksin, who was in self-exile after the coup that deposed him at the time, as his economic adviser and, last year, Thaksin, together with his sister Yingluck, attended Hun Sen’s birthday party in Phnom Penh.

A cosy reunion... 

[hotchilli]

18 minutes ago, Shocked farang said:

Hun Sen when he decided to quit, simply appointed his own son as prime minister, why things in Thailand have to be so complicated? LOL

Prayut didn't have a son?

[Ralf001]

Good to hear P'Thaksin friends can now visit him now he is on parole. 

 

Extended periods in hospital are very hard without visitors, must have been hellish for P'Thaksin to not be allowed visitors.

[Srikcir]

What do you call Former PM's?

AM's.

(Absentee Ministers)

[2baht]

46 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Good to hear P'Thaksin friends can now visit him now he is on parole. 

 

Extended periods in hospital are very hard without visitors, must have been hellish for P'Thaksin to not be allowed visitors.

Nong Ralfy, It's all a farce, he's not sick at all, it's all a ploy to pull the wool over the eyes of the poorly educated, looks like he got you hook, line and sinker, nong Ralfy boy! 

[2baht]

34 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

What do you call Former PM's?

 

Influentially filthy rich!

[harada]

Having Hun Sen as a bosom buddy pretty well sums up Thaksin and his family.  

[jippytum]

Didn't take long for these two blrds of a feather to meet up. 

[Ralf001]

35 minutes ago, 2baht said:

Nong Ralfy, It's all a farce, he's not sick at all, it's all a ploy to pull the wool over the eyes of the poorly educated, looks like he got you hook, line and sinker, nong Ralfy boy! 

agree 100 % Champ.

74 yr old men do not get ill.

[brianthainess]

So glad to see Tony has improved so quickly, no neck brace, and no arm brace, he can even clap his hands. 

[fondue zoo]

 

 

Just a couple of good ol' boys!

 

 

[spidermike007]

As very good fit for the oppressive and a sadistic army here. Hun Sen himself was the mafia in Cambodia. He was a money grubbing, power hungry, land grabbing multi billionaire, who stopped at nothing to maintain his power, and amass more fortune. In addition, his resume includes many years as a commander in the Kymer Rouge, where he engaged in serial killing. Quite a leader. He is getting old, and is paranoid. His personal security detail numbered over 5,000 men. There are countless people who want him dead. He corned the media and silenced his critics just like the Thai army does. The real scandal, is why all the western power are complicit in his crimes, and have always supported his brand of fake democracy? Where is the condemnation? Where are the sanctions? Where is the UN in all of this?

 

Now, he has passed the baton to his son with a fake election. Another despot ruler. What can one say? 

[Sydebolle]

9 hours ago, NanLaew said:

Nothing to see here. Hun Sen is simply dropping by to collect on that loan before Thaksin carks it.

 

Had to look up "cark"; what a wonderful word the Aussies have for this .......... 

[mfd101]

Friendship is our strength in old age.

[2baht]

10 hours ago, connda said:

Tennis anyone?  🎾

........or maybe a chukka or two of polo? Isn't that what the filthy rich play???

[crazykopite]

And there was me thinking he was on his death bed yet within 24 hours he is receiving overseas government officials it’s clear to me he has zero parole conditions if he can see who he wants Thailand is becoming an embarrassment to the rest of the world !!!!

[Modern Coding]

12 hours ago, JingerBen said:

Partners in crime from way back.

The meeting will no doubt start with a benediction,  "Let us prey..."

Partners in crime, you say?

I have lived in Cambodia, and trust me: Hun Sen is an angel, compared to the true rulers of the country!

[Modern Coding]

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Hun Sen himself was the mafia in Cambodia.

I have lived in Cambodia before, and trust me: the true mafia is not Hun Sen. This, of course, does not make him an angel, but he is nothing compared to the true corrupt organizations ruling in this country.

[spidermike007]

5 minutes ago, Modern Coding said:

I have lived in Cambodia before, and trust me: the true mafia is not Hun Sen. This, of course, does not make him an angel, but he is nothing compared to the true corrupt organizations ruling in this country.

One gangster organization does not cancel out another. Hun Sen was a true despot, he did steal massive amounts of land for personal enrichment and he jailed and killed opponents like Sam Rainsy, Chea Vichea, and countless others. He was a tyrant. 

 

“The authorities don’t have the will to do a real investigation, because the killer is somebody powerful in the government,” Chhun alleged.

 

The investigation resumed following the men’s acquittal. Government spokesman Phay Siphan refused to discuss the case and hung up when asked about the government’s alleged connection to Vichea’s murder. 

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/1/22/15-years-on-justice-elusive-in-cambodia-union-leaders-murder

 

 

I not only weaken the opposition, I’m going to make them dead ... and if anyone is strong enough to try to hold a demonstration, I will beat all those dogs and put them in a cage.

—Hun Sen, January 20, 2011, responding to the suggestion that he should be worried about the overthrow of a dictator in Tunisia at the time of the “Arab Spring.”

 

https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/01/12/30-years-hun-sen/violence-repression-and-corruption-cambodia

[Hanuman2547]

A war criminal and mass murderer comes to visit another corrupt criminal.  

[Cabradelmar]

From one autocrat to another autocrat wannabe... "You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends"