Red-shirt woman and UDD guard jailed for alleged offences against soldiers in 2009

A woman and a guard for the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship have been sentenced to prison for detaining and attacking soldiers during red-shirt rallies in 2009.

On 15 Oct, the Criminal Court found Naruemon Warunrungroj and Kittisak Chinkhajon guilty of forcing with arms, detaining, and assaulting others during red-shirt rallies on 25 Feb 2009.

The two were the third and fourth defendants in the case who appeared in court, while the first two, Sonchai Sidi and Prachuap Bunsantia, are at large.

Naruemon was sentenced to one year in prison under Section 295 of the Criminal Code, and Kittisak three years under Section 309 (2) of the same law.

After the verdict was read, both defendants were immediately held in custody and sent to prison.

Source: http://prachatai.com/english/node/3407

2012-10-16

Great start getting these red thugs rounded up and herded off to prison,

but as per usual it appears that it is only the pawns in this real life Thai soap opera......

After the verdict was read, both defendants were immediately held in custody and sent to prison.

It's a pity that this doesn't happen for all the dodgy poo yais, and corrupt, conniving politicians/political activists/nuk lengs that get prison sentences.

Jutuporn Arisman and their ilk are protected by money and friends in high places, indeed it must be wonderful to be so privileged.

Oh hang on aren't Jutuporn and Arisman supposed to be battling against the privilege classes the Amart.?

Oh I understand, the old Amart is to be replaced with a new Amart and the poor foot soldiers get shafted yet again. No mass demonstrations outside of the courthouse for the ritual sacrificial underlings unlike the demonstrations for the Red Shirt master thugs

Red Democracy is indeed a wonderfully deceptive cause.

Edited October 16, 201213 yr by siampolee

...Sondhi...? ...just to keep the balance and perspective....

Read my post properly, I was talking about the attitudes of the Red Shirt leaders, not the actions of Sondhi.who unlike Thaksin hasn't scurried off to another country as a convicted renegade bail jumper but has stayed to face the music as well as surviving being shot a couple of years back.

The Red Shirt leaders have demonstrated clearly the contempt with which they view the grass roots members of a political movement that Thaksin and they hi-jacked in their fight for power.as we so clearly see by the support not offered to those two convicted persons.

''Tough at the top?'' Tougher at the bottom as you're holding up the rest of the manure heap.

Orwells 'Animal Farm' two legs bad four legs good.

Or in your view Docn Yellow shirts bad Red Shirts good...

Sondhi is con

Edited October 16, 201213 yr by siampolee

...Sondhi...? ...just to keep the balance and perspective....

balance and perspective with the usual posters on this forum??? pah!

but i commend you for at least trying.

low hanging fruit

It's a start - and an indication the UDD guards could solve the issues re the black shirts.

Read my post properly, I was talking about the attitudes of the Red Shirt leaders, not the actions of Sondhi.who unlike Thaksin hasn't scurried off to another country as a convicted renegade bail jumper but has stayed to face the music as well as surviving being shot a couple of years back.

The Red Shirt leaders have demonstrated clearly the contempt with which they view the grass roots members of a political movement that Thaksin and they hi-jacked in their fight for power.as we so clearly see by the support not offered to those two convicted persons.

''Tough at the top?'' Tougher at the bottom as you're holding up the rest of the manure heap.

Orwells 'Animal Farm' two legs bad four legs good.

Or in your view Docn Yellow shirts bad Red Shirts good...

Sondhi is con

Yellow shirt bad- red shirt good?

I couldn't care less, actually!

But that may be hard to understand in your world, where things are only black and white, with no grey!

Just to make this clear: if I remember correctly, Thaksins crimes (and in my opinion, he should "face the music" for them) were mainly tax- fraud, had nothing to do with red or yellow and -other than Sondhi- are not about any acts, that are anywhere close to terrorism.

Not that I think, this unimportant fact will matter to you, but...just saying!

DocN.

Well if you couldn't care less regarding the situation why are you passing comment about it ?

There is ample evidence of Thaksins support for violent acts in the public domain ,you dont have to look too hard to find the evidence.

There is also ample evidence regarding Sondhi, however the damage and carnage caused by Sondhi and his group is minuscule compared the Thaksins sponsored groups.

Is it me or just another crap headline? How can you be jailed for an 'alleged offence'? Surely being convicted by the court for the offience means that it is no longer alleged?????

NO BAIL!!???

I wonder when the yellow shirts that took a police woman hostage at Don Meuang, parading her on stage and assaulting her will be tried for this same offence.

that said two wrongs don't make a right.

Is it me or just another crap headline? How can you be jailed for an 'alleged offence'? Surely being convicted by the court for the offience means that it is no longer alleged?????

Yes I noticed that too!

And, yes, it is just another crap headline... but it's quite telling that newspapers feel they need to add words like "alleged", which is used to deflect any legal criticism away from them, in almost every case.

I do hope Chalerm doesn't catch on and we don't start seeing anything like "alleged self-exiled fugitive".

DocN.

Well if you couldn't care less regarding the situation why are you passing comment about it ?

There is ample evidence of Thaksins support for violent acts in the public domain ,you dont have to look too hard to find the evidence.

There is also ample evidence regarding Sondhi, however the damage and carnage caused by Sondhi and his group is minuscule compared the Thaksins sponsored groups.

...because I can't stand the self righteous being-blind-on-one-eye- attitude of many of the TV posters, who so easily hack and slash one side and forget to mentione the other side. As I said: there are shades of grey here!

It's a start - and an indication the UDD guards could solve the issues re the black shirts.

I am given to understand that neither the identities nor the motivator(s) of the 'Men in Black' has ever been discovered.

Red Shirts, Yellow Shirts or the Army? I guess you've drawn straws on this issue or something like that :-)

It's a start - and an indication the UDD guards could solve the issues re the black shirts.

I am given to understand that neither the identities nor the motivator(s) of the 'Men in Black' has ever been discovered.

Red Shirts, Yellow Shirts or the Army? I guess you've drawn straws on this issue or something like that :-)

The identities of the men-in-black have not been revealed (except if you believe Chalerm, possibly under the influence of ear medicine, who said they were police). Their motivation has been obvious to all but those who deny their existence.

As already mentioned, these 2 were just dispensible to the red-shirt hierarchy. But of course, where would we be without the 'but Abhisit, yellow-shirts, Sondhi, et al' apologists who have to raise the distraction fog to 'justify' their refusal to comment on the actual topic.

I wonder when the yellow shirts that took a police woman hostage at Don Meuang, parading her on stage and assaulting her will be tried for this same offence.

that said two wrongs don't make a right.

Predictable. Yawn

DocN. Well if you couldn't care less regarding the situation why are you passing comment about it ? There is ample evidence of Thaksins support for violent acts in the public domain ,you dont have to look too hard to find the evidence. There is also ample evidence regarding Sondhi, however the damage and carnage caused by Sondhi and his group is minuscule compared the Thaksins sponsored groups.

...because I can't stand the self righteous being-blind-on-one-eye- attitude of many of the TV posters, who so easily hack and slash one side and forget to mentione the other side. As I said: there are shades of grey here!

But why should anyone have to mention 'the other side' when the thread is about

Red-shirt woman and UDD guard jailed for alleged offences against soldiers in 2009

I wonder when the yellow shirts that took a police woman hostage at Don Meuang, parading her on stage and assaulting her will be tried for this same offence. that said two wrongs don't make a right.

So why say it?

What an extremely harsh sentence

What message does that convey to the watching international human rights organisations, especially when sondi walks a free man

Just to make this clear: if I remember correctly, Thaksins crimes (and in my opinion, he should "face the music" for them) were mainly tax- fraud, had nothing to do with red or yellow and -other than Sondhi- are not about any acts, that are anywhere close to terrorism.

Not that I think, this unimportant fact will matter to you, but...just saying!

I believe Thaksin encouraged the red shirts to park a petrol tanker in front of victory monument during the protests, and threatened personally to ensure it would explode of the Bangkok Police approached the group of protesters which had gathered at Victory Monument. He did this openly with words from his own mouth. This was at the same time he blocked Victory Monument for "the movement" with buses, stopping the movement of people through what is one of the major economic activity centers in Bangkok.

In western countries inciting terrorism through acts or threats intended to cause fear and disorder is a crime - I would bet that someone looking hard enough could find a law in the Thai system which would cover this as well.

He is not only a white collar criminal, he is also the leader of a terrorist group which has on multiple occasions performed acts against the people for the purposes of disrupting the system and causing fears against those whom they intend to act against. Regardless of the Yellow Shirts, Pink Shirts, Black Shirts, or Blue Shirts, the focus is on activities of the Red Shirts.