Red shirts stand to lose on Thaksin's amnesty: Abhisit

By The Nation

Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva has posted his latest campaign message on Facebook addressing the red shirts under the title "Amnesty and 91 Deaths".

Here are the excerpts:

- The red shirts have been demanding justice for 91 people killed. I think they should have asked Yingluck Shinawatra and her Pheu Thai Party whether the planned amnesty would whitewash the atrocities committed against the 91 killed.

- Should the amnesty be granted to every incident in the wake of the 2006 coup, this would apply to the Pattaya mayhem to disrupt the Asean Summit in 2010 and the riots in the following year.

- I want to remind the red shirts that the amnesty would mean there would be no inquiry into how and why the 91 were killed.

- I suspect ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra would use taxpayer's money for compensation payments to the victims' families in exchange for ending all probes on the bloodshed.

- Will the red shirts concede to the whitewash?

- I am certain the amnesty will whitewash incidents in connection with the riots between 2010 and 2011.

- Top red-shirt leaders are contesting the general election with the hope of getting parliamentary immunity as shield for their legal issues. But the majority of the red shirts were in remand without any legal assistance until the Justice Ministry intervened.

- The riots were not politically-motivated violence but deliberate attempts to bring about the country's destruction.

- The amnesty will rescue instigators of the riots and there would be no accountability for the bloodshed.

- I and military leaders have repeatedly insisted we would not grant amnesty for ourselves because we are confident that we have carried out our duty in a rightful manner to safeguard the country.

- We are ready to face the judical inquiry on our actions undertaken for the country.

- I urge the red shirts to try and get a clear answer from Yingluck and Pheu Thai.

-- The Nation 2011-06-23

What, no mention of the terrorists , sorry, citizens, occupation of the airport?

"I want to remind the red shirts that the amnesty would mean there would be no inquiry into how and why the 91 were killed." - what has been happening for the past year then?

This election is simply a school playground slanging match between two opposing sides neither of which seem to care little about representing the country and looking to the future.

What, no mention of the terrorists , sorry, citizens, occupation of the airport?

"I want to remind the red shirts that the amnesty would mean there would be no inquiry into how and why the 91 were killed." - what has been happening for the past year then?

This election is simply a school playground slanging match between two opposing sides neither of which seem to care little about representing the country and looking to the future.

Well said.

What, no mention of the terrorists , sorry, citizens, occupation of the airport?

"I want to remind the red shirts that the amnesty would mean there would be no inquiry into how and why the 91 were killed." - what has been happening for the past year then?

This election is simply a school playground slanging match between two opposing sides neither of which seem to care little about representing the country and looking to the future.

Why would he mention the yellow shirts? Their cases are progressing through the courts, and they have also rejected the idea of amnesty.

Under the Pheu Thai amnesty plan, the yellow shirts would get off their charges as well.