Thai Govt Ready To Lift Emergency Decree Nationwide: Deputy PM

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Govt ready to lift emergency decree: Deputy PM

BANGKOK, Nov 20 -- The Thai government is prepared to revoke the emergency decree now imposed in the capital of Bangkok and three neighbouring provinces as well as in four trouble-plagued southern provinces after peace has returned to those areas, said newly reappointed Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban on Saturday.

Asked whether the government is willing to lift the emergency decree in the capital and adjacent provinces after a one-day rally by the anti-government Red Shirt movement in Bangkok ended peacefully Friday, Mr Suthep said Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has a clear-cut policy that the emergency decree could also be lifted in the four southern provinces of Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and Songkhla immediately after peace is restored there.

In response to demands made by the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) for the Department of Special Investigation to speedily find the causes of those killed during the marathon rally in April and May within seven days otherwise they would organise a prolonged demonstration, Mr Suthep said the people have rights under the Constitution to a rally but it must be held within the legal framework and not cause trouble to others.

Mr Suthep said he still did not know about a request by Prof Dr Kanit Na Nakorn, chairman of the Truth for Reconciliation Commission, urging Defence Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan to release eight leading UDD members from imprisonment with an aim for national reconciliation and he also had not discussed the issue with the general who is also head of the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES).

Several factors must be taken into consideration if the release is to be made, said Mr Suthep, adding that the factors include pledges of no disorder be made if they were to be released and that they must not intimidate witnesses otherwise concerned agencies would object the release. However, it depends on a court ruling and the government cannot interfere the court jurisdiction.

Leading UDD members either surrendered or arrested after a clashes between government troop and UDD protesters on May 19.

Meanwhile, Mr Abhisit said the overall situation was gradually better and the agencies concerned would evaluate the situation before deciding to lift the emergency decree.

He said the protest of the UDD Red Shirts and the Yellow Shirt People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) was not the main factor to be taken into consideration. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2010-11-20

[housepainter]

I welcome this announcement as reconciliation is proving to be a non-invasive discreet return to normalisation.

The acceptance that Thaksin is very much a spent force [he has lost a lot of money] without a power base and with negligible influence is held by the yellow shirted people, whilst the reds seem to accept his absence without question. Things have never been forced to a head. Blood has not run in rivers and the only revolution Bangkok will ever see is the lap made by the skytrain.

Reconcilation, as unpalatable as it sounds is well and truly underway. Reconciled to having the fairest, least corrupt Government in living memory; to removing despots; to distancing those dark figures and to stopping those illegal mega projects. Even the judiciary is taking a pasting in an effort to introduce the application of the rule of law. That must come as a shock.

All welcome then. Contrast that with what the anti-monarchists cloaked in red would have us accept. Snouts in troughs, more bank debt for farmers in exchange for votes, more powerful families running [by proxy] their poltical enclaves, more dynasties and less democracy.

The idea held by the reds seems to be that a formal meeting around a big table is to be avoided and therefore no reconciliation can take place. Wrong. Childish and simplistic but then what can you expect when the mouth pieces lack an education in much other than knuckle dragging. When your support base remains the up-country illiterate how do you communicate an ideology for change? You don't. You pay the money come election time. But now the cash cow is where exactly, other than hiding at the end of some obscure internet-video link. Not many Isan folk that I know pack a Blakberri, lap top or desk top PC. And as for an Apple ......... they are known to eat them.

The people with the communication skills are overwhelmingly found in Bangkok and have reconciled themselves to milli-metering a way forwards by way of governemnt policy and effective governance. This government is working. This coalition is holding and the reds are back to nothing more visionary than dreaming of winning the next election. Without Thaksin? Without Thaksin's money? Certainly without the numbers to support them in mass civil protest on the streets of Bangkok. There's no money to bus them down, pay the bills and keep them fed. Not anymore.

As a spent force the reds seem to be behaving with all the demonstrability of the pupil found on the back row folding paper areoplanes. It can always be ignored, possibly engaged but brought on board, I think not. A political wilderness has arrived but as yet they don't see it. The agenda includes internal terrorism on a scale that the reds used to dream of. With the Southern Provinces now a tabled concern things have moved on. The yellows have moved. Society has moved on but the red dot has left its stain. Nothing more.

The red dinosaurs and their political masters be they Silom based or Cambodian based have little choice other than to die out quietly and preferably in the corner of a foreign field. Without an ideology other than self promotion they have nothing to sell. Without the intellect to re-invent themselves as a political party they remain some form of nebulous form that fills space but is really a vacuum.

We need a return to democracy. But more than that we need a development of the fragile democracy that has hung by a thread. Fortunately, it is being natured and I can not see it being derailed. There is no serious, capable or legitimate challenger within Thai politics to the democrat party and each country seems to have only one despot and he's been and gone.

What Thaksin did for Man City, he's doing for Thailand. Better persons, fit and proper persons run the show now and look just how far up the league they are. You can choose whether I'm talking football or politics ....... or both.

[Microwave]

Well said housepainter.

[gemini81]

I welcome this announcement as reconciliation is proving to be a non-invasive discreet return to normalisation.

The acceptance that Thaksin is very much a spent force [he has lost a lot of money] without a power base and with negligible influence is held by the yellow shirted people, whilst the reds seem to accept his absence without question. Things have never been forced to a head. Blood has not run in rivers and the only revolution Bangkok will ever see is the lap made by the skytrain.

Reconcilation, as unpalatable as it sounds is well and truly underway. Reconciled to having the fairest, least corrupt Government in living memory; to removing despots; to distancing those dark figures and to stopping those illegal mega projects. Even the judiciary is taking a pasting in an effort to introduce the application of the rule of law. That must come as a shock.

All welcome then. Contrast that with what the anti-monarchists cloaked in red would have us accept. Snouts in troughs, more bank debt for farmers in exchange for votes, more powerful families running [by proxy] their poltical enclaves, more dynasties and less democracy.

The idea held by the reds seems to be that a formal meeting around a big table is to be avoided and therefore no reconciliation can take place. Wrong. Childish and simplistic but then what can you expect when the mouth pieces lack an education in much other than knuckle dragging. When your support base remains the up-country illiterate how do you communicate an ideology for change? You don't. You pay the money come election time. But now the cash cow is where exactly, other than hiding at the end of some obscure internet-video link. Not many Isan folk that I know pack a Blakberri, lap top or desk top PC. And as for an Apple ......... they are known to eat them.

The people with the communication skills are overwhelmingly found in Bangkok and have reconciled themselves to milli-metering a way forwards by way of governemnt policy and effective governance. This government is working. This coalition is holding and the reds are back to nothing more visionary than dreaming of winning the next election. Without Thaksin? Without Thaksin's money? Certainly without the numbers to support them in mass civil protest on the streets of Bangkok. There's no money to bus them down, pay the bills and keep them fed. Not anymore.

As a spent force the reds seem to be behaving with all the demonstrability of the pupil found on the back row folding paper areoplanes. It can always be ignored, possibly engaged but brought on board, I think not. A political wilderness has arrived but as yet they don't see it. The agenda includes internal terrorism on a scale that the reds used to dream of. With the Southern Provinces now a tabled concern things have moved on. The yellows have moved. Society has moved on but the red dot has left its stain. Nothing more.

The red dinosaurs and their political masters be they Silom based or Cambodian based have little choice other than to die out quietly and preferably in the corner of a foreign field. Without an ideology other than self promotion they have nothing to sell. Without the intellect to re-invent themselves as a political party they remain some form of nebulous form that fills space but is really a vacuum.

We need a return to democracy. But more than that we need a development of the fragile democracy that has hung by a thread. Fortunately, it is being natured and I can not see it being derailed. There is no serious, capable or legitimate challenger within Thai politics to the democrat party and each country seems to have only one despot and he's been and gone.

What Thaksin did for Man City, he's doing for Thailand. Better persons, fit and proper persons run the show now and look just how far up the league they are. You can choose whether I'm talking football or politics ....... or both.

well indeed that sums it up! I'm not a real talker or essay writer, so thanks for putting it in the forum! No denying those truths.