Hong Kong and Thailand drafting treaty that could send Thaksin home

HONG KONG: -- Hong Kong is close to agreeing on an extradition treaty with Thailand that could be used to send ousted prime minster Thaksin Shinawatra back home, a news report said Sunday.

Talks are at an advanced stage over the wide-ranging treaty which could affect regular visitor Thaksin, facing a two-year jail sentence for corruption in Thailand, according to the Sunday Morning Post.

News of the discussions comes as Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva threatened to seek China's help to extradite Thaksin when he announced plans to deliver a speech last month at the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Hong Kong.

-- DPA 2009-03-08

This is getting better than the Road runner cartoons. T is the runner and the powers that be are the coyote, have to keep the series going so old Wiley cannot be successful in his quest. Perhaps another countries door will be closed to the fleeing bird.

This is getting better than the Road runner cartoons. T is the runner and the powers that be are the coyote, have to keep the series going so old Wiley cannot be successful in his quest. Perhaps another countries door will be closed to the fleeing bird.

Could be seen as the inverse too.

The anti-Thaksin bunch have been making these 'extradition' claims virtually every week now since he failed to turn up for his first court hearing over 2 years ago. And yet they appear to have done absolutely nothing in terms of instituting proceedings. All they seem to have done is send senior civil servants on extravagant junkets to England to 'investigate' the possibility of extradition.

There comes a point when one's credulity is stretched beyond breaking point. There must be a point to this scaremongering. Perhaps it's to 'rattle' the itinerant Thaksin.

The anti-Thaksin bunch have been making these 'extradition' claims virtually every week now since he failed to turn up for his first court hearing over 2 years ago. And yet they appear to have done absolutely nothing in terms of instituting proceedings. All they seem to have done is send senior civil servants on extravagant junkets to England to 'investigate' the possibility of extradition.

There comes a point when one's credulity is stretched beyond breaking point. There must be a point to this scaremongering. Perhaps it's to 'rattle' the itinerant Thaksin.

Certainly to rattle his cage and

also make that mental and physical cage

smaller and smaller.

Managua is lovely in the springtime.

If Abhisit had checked the list of treaty countries two weeks ago, before flapping his lips about arrest and extradition of his nemesis, a great opportunity for showboating would have been missed.

A person with an education as expensive as his should have realised that Hong Kong Basic Law is different to PRC, though perhaps he's playing dumb for the grandstand effect.

The anti-Thaksin bunch have been making these 'extradition' claims virtually every week now since he failed to turn up for his first court hearing over 2 years ago. And yet they appear to have done absolutely nothing in terms of instituting proceedings. All they seem to have done is send senior civil servants on extravagant junkets to England to 'investigate' the possibility of extradition.

There comes a point when one's credulity is stretched beyond breaking point. There must be a point to this scaremongering. Perhaps it's to 'rattle' the itinerant Thaksin.

Briggsy, I reckon the Thai Media portraying Thaksin as "the fugive" is keeping this story rolling.Ex right wing British journalists advisers could possibly be behind this. Besides, now the press have nothing left of substance they can report or that they dare print!...........and I've got this nasty feeling (if previous regime change is anything to go by)if Thaksin were to return a deal to brush things under the carpet might be struck!

I bet he knew,

but just denied Dr. T. a Bully Pulpit during ASEAN,

and made him look MORE on the run in the process,

by not setting foot in Hong Kong as scheduled.

And yet more obfuscation from the PM this morning in the nation.

The Nation quotes Aphisit as claiming Thailand and HK have pledged to discuss an extradition treaty and are "one step closer to extraditing Thaksin". Absolute guff.

Part game to keep Thaksin paranoid and off balance and part serious as both places are convenient bolt holes for crims from the other place.

In the meantime China certainly wont be wanting anyone using any of its territory for a political purpose aimed at upsetting a regional ally, and hegemony over mainland SE Asia is a strategic goal of China which is coming ever nearer. However, because of the different laws it is not easy for them to contropl what happens in HK without being caught interfering.

Question: Why do they want Khun T to come back home?

Question: Why do they want Khun T to come back home?

Good question. I don't think they really do but they have to pretend, in the charade that is Thai politics, that they want the law to be applied equally to all.

Question: Why do they want Khun T to come back home?

Good question. I don't think they really do but they have to pretend, in the charade that is Thai politics, that they want the law to be applied equally to all.

I agree, the last thing the yellows want is a Thaksin back in country, chaos would rule.

they want the law to be applied equally to all.

If so, Sondhi must be in their list.

No? So law must be applied equally to all reds. Yellows are still out there setting up concerts