Yingluck condemns violence in Trat, Ratchaprasong

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Yingluck condemns violence in Trat, Ratchaprasong
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra Sunday condemned the attacks in Trat and near the Ratchaprasong rally site that also saw children killed and injured.

Yingluck posted a message on her Facebook wall that she was sad that children were killed and she would like to extend her condolence to families of the injured and slain victims.

"I strongly condemn the use of violence in recent days that has caused many deaths both at Trat Province and especially at Rachaprasong today, which is particularly saddening and disturbing since the lives of children were lost," Yingluck said.

She said she has instructed officials concerned to find out the culprits and would punish them no matter which side they belonged to.

Yingluck said her government would not tolerate the act of terrorism for political goal without caring about people's life.

"The government will not tolerate terrorism and has ordered a full investigation by authorities to find the culprits and bring them to justice without exception," her Facebook message said.

She said those with different views should turn to use peaceful measures to express their opinions instead of using violence.

"But the use of violence that lead to deaths are not the civilized way of the living. It is not the way of life of Thais who are naturally considerate and empthatic to fellow citizens, rather than resort to senseless killings. I would like to again call on all sides that it is best to use peaceful means to resolve the political conflict through the democratic process," Yingluck said.


-- The Nation 2014-02-24

[JRSoul]

Facebook? What percentage of the Thai population look at Yingluk's facebook page each day, or any day for that matter? Is television address out of fashion?

Edited February 23, 2014 by JRSoul

[kurnell]

Facebook? What percentage of the Thai population look at Yingluk's facebook page each day, or any day for that matter? Is television address out of fashion?

Perhaps she should walk onto the set of a soap opera and make a statement. That's the only way to reach all the people.

[Boxclever]

I admire her, she has branded these killers as terrorists.

Unlike Suthep who glorifies his killers as "his popcorn vendors".

Edited February 23, 2014 by Boxclever

[NongKhaiKid]

At your next cabinet meeting YL look around the table and see those appointed by the real PM as a reward for loyalty and setting Bkk on fire.

They were at the red shirt meeting in Korat on Saturday and will you have the nuts to ask what they know about the violence ?

[thesetat2013]

My god! Us this how a leader of a nation addresses them to show symapthy for the lives lost? Through facebook!

I wonded if she is giving her orders to her minions this way also!

Welcome to Thailand where you can enjoy beautiful beaches, beautiful women, and become friends with the PM in FB. If thialand lost the internet its goc would be crippled

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[tonytigerbkk]

But she did not condemn her friends for their act of revelling and cheering the death of these young innocent children.

[noitom]

And the newspaper should cease constantly referring to her as "caretaker." It only serves to further antagonize, fracture, and engender conflict. It also detracts from the issue of violence and killing and maintaining peace.

[NongKhaiKid]

My god! Us this how a leader of a nation addresses them to show symapthy for the lives lost? Through facebook!

I wonded if she is giving her orders to her minions this way also!

Welcome to Thailand where you can enjoy beautiful beaches, beautiful women, and become friends with the PM in FB. If thialand lost the internet its goc would be crippled

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She doesn't do media briefings, committees or public appearances.

In fact she doesn't do government.

[djjamie]

Facebook? So she gets her orders via Skype and sends them to her Facebook page. thaksin may as well type the messages directly to her Facebook and she can be out of the picture.

I'm glad in a way, the country will see she is not very sincere due to the majority of the population not having access to Facebook. Though going by the reaction of the 4000 UDD supporters that cheered, clapped and whistled when they heard about the tragic loss of life in Trat maybe that was her intention.

The information can be filtered to the PT strong holds through those very same people that has been shown to celebrate terrorism and death. Fortunately the average Thai do not represent what the UDD leadership stands for.

You have no problems conveying your message on TV while shedding crocodile tears when your regime is threatened and when political gain can be achieved. The whole country had access to that televised address.

You have no problem last Tuesday going onto TV to blame the PDRC for the failed payments of the rice scheme and then still heralding the scheme a success. There was much to gain politically and the whole country had access to the televised address.

When you don't tolerate the act of terrorism and you have nothing to gain politically. When you can't demonize the opposition and don't shed a single tear for the loss of life, 50% of the population can read your insincere message on Facebook. To rub salt in the wounds it is the 50% that didn't vote for you because the ones that did still can't afford a computer or internet even though the Shinawatra regime has injected 1.5 trillion baht into the farmers plight for over 10 years.

So really there is no excuse for not showing your face on TV to act like a leader should and face the people and tell them how you feel and strongly condemn. That emotional message cannot be conveyed on Facebook.

If it was your child yingluck, would you send a message on Facebook to condone the attacks. Think about it. Those kids had parents, brothers, sisters. The poor child's only crime in Bangkok was to go shopping with his dad and sister in Big C.

Your not a leader. Your a scared little coward hiding in a corner showing your true colors.

[tonytigerbkk]

Nor did she make any effort to disassociate herself or her party from the organization that planned and carried out this cowardly attack.

[fleeing]

Did she post a tearful selfie together with her statement?

[whybother]

And the newspaper should cease constantly referring to her as "caretaker." It only serves to further antagonize, fracture, and engender conflict. It also detracts from the issue of violence and killing and maintaining peace.

How should they refer to the care-taker Prime Minister?

[JRSoul]

And the newspaper should cease constantly referring to her as "caretaker." It only serves to further antagonize, fracture, and engender conflict. It also detracts from the issue of violence and killing and maintaining peace.

Agreed. It's not like she is taking any care.

[Thaddeus]

I admire her, she has branded these killers as terrorists.

Day late, dollar short.

On a medium that few will see.

[chainarong]

Regardless of what anyone thinks of Caretaker PM Yingluck , the P.M. is now on record of condemning violence and supporting piece-full dialog, now this is on record , what is said / indicated behind the scene is a different matter, unfortunately the record for speaking the truth and being transparent are not a high point with in the PTP Administrations vocabulary

[CWMcMurray]

You can check my previous posts to see that I am no big fan of the current gov....

But after her last speech on the wonderful ness of the rice pledging scheme and all the talk that she had violated election law... Guessing she may have been told by her legal team not to make any more Speeches on TV until the election Is final

At least I hope that's the reason why..

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[chainarong]

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And the newspaper should cease constantly referring to her as "caretaker." It only serves to further antagonize, fracture, and engender conflict. It also detracts from the issue of violence and killing and maintaining peace.

That's all she is at present, Caretaker Prime Minister, that is the proper title.

[ShannonT]

I admire her, she has branded these killers as terrorists.

Unlike Suthep who glorifies his killers as "his popcorn vendors".

He even says he admires them and that he likes their actions ...which basically means, he supports and encourages murder.

[ShannonT]

Facebook? So she gets her orders via Skype and sends them to her Facebook page. thaksin may as well type the messages directly to her Facebook and she can be out of the picture.

I'm glad in a way, the country will see she is not very sincere due to the majority of the population not having access to Facebook. Though going by the reaction of the 4000 UDD supporters that cheered, clapped and whistled when they heard about the tragic loss of life in Trat maybe that was her intention.

The information can be filtered to the PT strong holds through those very same people that has been shown to celebrate terrorism and death. Fortunately the average Thai do not represent what the UDD leadership stands for.

You have no problems conveying your message on TV while shedding crocodile tears when your regime is threatened and when political gain can be achieved. The whole country had access to that televised address.

You have no problem last Tuesday going onto TV to blame the PDRC for the failed payments of the rice scheme and then still heralding the scheme a success. There was much to gain politically and the whole country had access to the televised address.

When you don't tolerate the act of terrorism and you have nothing to gain politically. When you can't demonize the opposition and don't shed a single tear for the loss of life, 50% of the population can read your insincere message on Facebook. To rub salt in the wounds it is the 50% that didn't vote for you because the ones that did still can't afford a computer or internet even though the Shinawatra regime has injected 1.5 trillion baht into the farmers plight for over 10 years.

So really there is no excuse for not showing your face on TV to act like a leader should and face the people and tell them how you feel and strongly condemn. That emotional message cannot be conveyed on Facebook.

If it was your child yingluck, would you send a message on Facebook to condone the attacks. Think about it. Those kids had parents, brothers, sisters. The poor child's only crime in Bangkok was to go shopping with his dad and sister in Big C.

Your not a leader. Your a scared little coward hiding in a corner showing your true colors.

Umm, news flash, I don't think Yingluck is reading this forum...

[trogers]

Awww...putting on a show on behalf of her brother again?

The Thaksin regime had been shaken to its core. The PM was cornered and felt her life was in danger because the military had distanced itself and the police had buckled to public scrutiny.

"The red shirts' hard core is Thaksin's last resort plus his crony police officers helping him to carry out underground operations focusing on instigating unlimited violence,'' he said.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Redshirt-threats-get-political-tension-boiling-30227587.html

[whybother]

I admire her, she has branded these killers as terrorists.

Unlike Suthep who glorifies his killers as "his popcorn vendors".

He even says he admires them and that he likes their actions ...which basically means, he supports and encourages murder.

Did the shooters at Lak Si kill anyone?

[PatOngo]

Facebook diplomacy from an undisclosed location........that will surely placate the illiterate and the deceived.Well done Einstein!

[tonytigerbkk]

I admire her, she has branded these killers as terrorists.

Unlike Suthep who glorifies his killers as "his popcorn vendors".

He even says he admires them and that he likes their actions ...which basically means, he supports and encourages murder.

I am a 50 year old male who has seen some things that I wish that I hadn’t and hope that I will never see the likes of again.

I have watched friends dying on a battlefield (Falklands) and seen the immediate aftermath of an IRA bomb.

Even though I have become hardened to certain situations, I cried when I read about these cowardly attacks, the reaction at the red shirt rally and Yingluck’s pathetic response.

While the normal people were shedding tears for these children and trying to take all of this in, you first reaction is how can I justify this act on Thai Visa.

Shame on you.

[Fryslan boppe]

"She said she has instructed officials concerned to find out the culprits..."

In doing that, one needs to merely ask four main questions for starters

1. Which political forces are served by chaos, havoc, bombings and mayhem?
2. Which ones are not?
3. Which political forces are served by foisting such turmoil in their opposites, and for purposes it is generated in the first place.
4. Which side has leadership aggrandizing gunmen with 'popcorn-sack' covered guns.

Answering those questions will go a long way in focussing attention on the sources of this mayhem.

Edited February 24, 2014 by Fryslan boppe

[fab4]

I admire her, she has branded these killers as terrorists.

Unlike Suthep who glorifies his killers as "his popcorn vendors".

He even says he admires them and that he likes their actions ...which basically means, he supports and encourages murder.

Did the shooters at Lak Si kill anyone?

What a shameless attempt to divert the argument.

[whybother]

I admire her, she has branded these killers as terrorists.

Unlike Suthep who glorifies his killers as "his popcorn vendors".

He even says he admires them and that he likes their actions ...which basically means, he supports and encourages murder.

Did the shooters at Lak Si kill anyone?

What a shameless attempt to divert the argument.

It's not diverting the argument. Shannon suggested he supports murder? Where is Suthep supporting murder?

[djjamie]

Facebook? So she gets her orders via Skype and sends them to her Facebook page. thaksin may as well type the messages directly to her Facebook and she can be out of the picture.

I'm glad in a way, the country will see she is not very sincere due to the majority of the population not having access to Facebook. Though going by the reaction of the 4000 UDD supporters that cheered, clapped and whistled when they heard about the tragic loss of life in Trat maybe that was her intention.

The information can be filtered to the PT strong holds through those very same people that has been shown to celebrate terrorism and death. Fortunately the average Thai do not represent what the UDD leadership stands for.

You have no problems conveying your message on TV while shedding crocodile tears when your regime is threatened and when political gain can be achieved. The whole country had access to that televised address.

You have no problem last Tuesday going onto TV to blame the PDRC for the failed payments of the rice scheme and then still heralding the scheme a success. There was much to gain politically and the whole country had access to the televised address.

When you don't tolerate the act of terrorism and you have nothing to gain politically. When you can't demonize the opposition and don't shed a single tear for the loss of life, 50% of the population can read your insincere message on Facebook. To rub salt in the wounds it is the 50% that didn't vote for you because the ones that did still can't afford a computer or internet even though the Shinawatra regime has injected 1.5 trillion baht into the farmers plight for over 10 years.

So really there is no excuse for not showing your face on TV to act like a leader should and face the people and tell them how you feel and strongly condemn. That emotional message cannot be conveyed on Facebook.

If it was your child yingluck, would you send a message on Facebook to condone the attacks. Think about it. Those kids had parents, brothers, sisters. The poor child's only crime in Bangkok was to go shopping with his dad and sister in Big C.

Your not a leader. Your a scared little coward hiding in a corner showing your true colors.

Umm, news flash, I don't think Yingluck is reading this forum...

That's my point exactly. She doesn't do much at all.

[zaphodbeeblebrox]

Facebook? What percentage of the Thai population look at Yingluk's facebook page each day, or any day for that matter? Is television address out of fashion?

She has 2.5 million likes, if that helps you do the calculation. That means about 3-4% of the country's population would receive it in their news feed.

[waza]

I admire her, she has branded these killers as terrorists.

Unlike Suthep who glorifies his killers as "his popcorn vendors".

He even says he admires them and that he likes their actions ...which basically means, he supports and encourages murder.

Did the shooters at Lak Si kill anyone?

What a shameless attempt to divert the argument.

Argument? This isn't a debate, its people venting their thoughts and feelings on an emotive topic.

The reality is that all this violence is abhorrent no matter which side of the political divide is perpetrating it and it should be stopped. This is the role of the government and its security forces to provide for the safety of all citizens and security for society. As the leader of the government, it is ultimately Yinglucks responsibility to ensure these needs are met. But unlike any statesperson I have ever seen she avoids this role same as every other role the nations leader should fulfil. While children are murdered in the streets, she seeks seclusion and personal safety. While all around is chaos and the people look for strong leadership to give encouragement and direction she hides behind facebook mobile, posting insincere platitudes.

The reality is she and her criminal brother are the root cause of this mayhem, and perpetuate it with inept leadership and a stubborn cling to power. If you cant take the heat get out of the kitchen, Yingluck and her cabinet of corrupt billionaires should resign and allow someone with the ability to manage the situation effectively to take charge and save lives.

Edited February 24, 2014 by waza