Internal Security Act replacing Emergency Decree: Surapong

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Internal Security Act replacing Emergency Decree: Surapong



BANGKOK, March 17 -- The caretaker cabinet, at its weekly meeting tomorrow will revoke the emergency decree and return to use of the Internal Security Act (ISA) to handle the political situation, according to caretaker Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Affairs Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul.

Mr Surapong, chief advisor to the Center for Maintaining Peace and Order (CMPO), said the agency will ask the cabinet to lift a two-month state of emergency imposed in the capital and its adjacent provinces to handle the anti-government protesters.

The ISA will replace the emergency decree in the same areas.

The Emergency Decree is due to expire March 22.

Mr Surapong said after the ISA is implemented, the CMPO will revert to become the Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) but would initially work under the same structure.

Caretaker Labour Minister Chalerm Yubamrung, in his capacity as director of CMPO would head the CAPO with the same members working and would use the Royal Thai Police Sports Club on Vibhavadi Road as its headquarters, said Mr Surapong.

Mr Surapong said he wwill attend the CMPO meeting today and ask the army to remove all bunkers set up on roads in Bangkok after the emergency decree is lifted. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2014-03-17

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State of emergency to be replaced with ISA tomorrow : Surapong

BANGKOK: -- The caretaker cabinet will revoke the state of emergency tomorrow and replaced it with Internal Security Act (ISA) when it meets in its weekly meetinge on Tuesday to handle the political situation said Centre for Maintaining Peace and Order chief advisor Surapong Tovichakchaikul.

Surapong said the CMPO will ask the cabinet to lift a two-month state of emergency imposed in the capital and its adjacent provinces. The ISA will replace the emergency decree in the same areas. The state of emergency is due to expire on March 22.

After the ISA is implemented, the CMPO will change to become the Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) but would initially work under the same structure.

Chalerm Yubamrung, in his capacity as director of CMPO would head the CAPO with the same members working and would use the Royal Thai Police Sports Club on Vibhavadi Road as its headquarters, said Surapong. He will attend the CMPO meeting today and ask the army to remove all bunkers set up on roads in Bangkok after the emergency decree is lifted.


-- The Nation 2014-03-17

[Costas2008]

Mr Surapong said he wwill attend the CMPO meeting today and ask the army to remove all bunkers set up on roads in Bangkok after the emergency decree is lifted.

The man being in love with the new UDD leader, Jatuporn, will invite him and his mob, to BKK to visit the protesters, of course in peace, after the army bunkers are removed.

More deaths are coming our way.

Edited March 17, 2014 by Costas2008

[chainarong]

Surapong is not the brightest marble in the box, he is in front of Thaskin as Thailand's worst foreign affairs Minister, so I guess what he says can be taken with a grain of salt , removing the military is a backward step , one wounders if anybody is accidently killed by a runaway grenade, after the military departure, can he be sued , this seems to be the norm , whilst introducing the Internal Security act, what motive or reason has he given in the military being removed, this question needs an answer.

[seajae]

what a moron, remove the army bunkers and the reds will have an open field to attack the protesters as the police refuse to do anything about it. This idiot is signing their death warrants and he knows it, probably hold a meetng with jutaporn to organize how they to go about it.

[NongKhaiKid]

Fancy initials and titles. Chalerm running the show with Surapong as chief adviser guarantees success

[Gweiloman]

Didn't some of you posters criticise the SOE in the first instance? And now, you are criticising the removal of it? Can you make up your mind please?

[siampolee]

The proposed removal of the S.O.E is a calculated strategic move by this caretaker administration which is designed to allow the Jutuporn led Red Shirt movement to escalate its actions in the hope that it will provoke the military into action.

It isn't going to work,

There will be I believe be an annulment of the farce of the February 2nd general election and the subsequent election will decide the future of Thailand and its peoples.

That is the one thing, the one action that the Shinwatra clan and their allies fear above all else.

A democratic process which will no doubt halt their income along with enabling a number of individuals to be brought to the courts and face trial.

That set of events being if those concerned have not already fled the country of course.

[WhizBang]

With Jatuporn now in charge of the UDD, I believe the SoE is now needed more than ever.

[SamMunich]

ISA replacing SoE,- I still wonder, what the actual difference is...

Factual and on the streets I guess there will be no differerence visible.

Only the tourism can be happy, because SoE severly restricts any kind of insurance for people visiting an area with SoE.

Re the Military: I would really wonder, if the military takes any orders from the likes of Chalerm, their pet enemy since over 20 years...

[Scamper]

" Mr Surapong said he will attend the CMPO meeting today and ask the army to remove all bunkers set up on roads in Bangkok after the emergency decree is lifted. "

And if Prayuth has any sense he will say no. If the people on the streets feel any sense of security at all it isn't because of Chalerm, his police, the CMPO or CAPO - all of whom have been dreadful. It is the army presence. As always, Thaksin is all too transparent with his maneuverings. With the UDD ramping up efforts to go after the NACC after an " unsatisfactory " ruling, the last thing Prayuth would want to do is leave all those areas unprotected. That is precisely what Thaksin wants. And it is precisely what shouldn't happen.

Edited March 17, 2014 by Scamper

[rubl]

The 'bunkers' I've seen along RamaIV are more emergency medical setup spots with a bit of camouflage netting. I wonder why k. Surapong is in a hurry to have them removed. With the 'battle' mentioned by the newly appointed UDD leader Jatuporn medical posts can come in handy, one would think.

[rickirs]

This is a good move for PTP. Given Gen. Prayuth's chip on his shoulder for PTP leadership, no doubt he was going to go overboard with unnecessary military enforcement against the PTP demonstrators because he "didn't like" the new UDD leader. While the police are compleyely ineffective in any law enforcement role, they are at least ineffective equally with all parties. Thailand doesn't need military looking for a fight to prove their political superiority.

[Crushdepth]

Net impact: Zero.

Sent from somewhere in the Pacific

[Robby nz]

Just another farce for a bit of publicity and to try to be seen as actually doing something.

The SOE was due to expire on Saturday anyway and by the time these clowns get their act together it would have to take a couple of days at the least to get anything passed by cabinet.

[rubl]

This is a good move for PTP. Given Gen. Prayuth's chip on his shoulder for PTP leadership, no doubt he was going to go overboard with unnecessary military enforcement against the PTP demonstrators because he "didn't like" the new UDD leader. While the police are compleyely ineffective in any law enforcement role, they are at least ineffective equally with all parties. Thailand doesn't need military looking for a fight to prove their political superiority.

This is not a good move, this is necessity as the Emergency Decree will expire end of this week.

Furthermore to start with 'a chip on someones shoulder' and therefor assume 'unnecessary military enforcement' against 'PTP demonstrators' needs some explanation. What military enforcement? Who are the Pheu Thai party demonstrators? What has that to do with liking or not liking k. Jatuporn?

'Ineffective police and equal to all parties'? Political parties?

Now 'looking for a fight to prove political superiority' seems completely foggy. What's next, the police to arrest k. Chalerm and k. Surapong because they always say they 'know all' ?

[Somtamnication]

And hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee is Martial Law, y'all!

Above played to the tune of the Carpenter's "we've only just begun".

[Halion]

This is a good move for PTP. Given Gen. Prayuth's chip on his shoulder for PTP leadership, no doubt he was going to go overboard with unnecessary military enforcement against the PTP demonstrators because he "didn't like" the new UDD leader. While the police are compleyely ineffective in any law enforcement role, they are at least ineffective equally with all parties. Thailand doesn't need military looking for a fight to prove their political superiority.

Sadly you need to catch up on current affairs. It is known and proven fact that the PTP/Shins have the RTP in their pocket.

They are to all intent and purpose a political militia.

[tomacht8]

What does this Surapong CAPO do, except to order in 5 star hotels, the large plates for 100.000 - 500.000 Baht a day?
The CMPO/CAPO/DSI lodge at the Royal Thai Police Sports Club.
Could this be the reason why the police stop to work?

From over 100 grenade-, bombs and firearms attacks in the last 4 months,
the police/CMPO/CAPO/DSI cleared up Zero cases from over 100 attacks!

All this crazy grenade-, bombs and firearms shooters still are runing free around.
As long as the police strikes, the Army should provide security.

Edited March 17, 2014 by tomacht8

[JamesDean3]

This evil person and it shows in his face. Remove the bunkers and the Red Shirts will start killing more innocent civilians.

[englishoak]

Is there still a state of emergency in BKK ?

Make up your minds people, pro protesters whined when it was put in place even though it was clearly needed and now once the protest sites have been cleared and some semblance of normality returned your now whining about it being ended ?

so which is it, was the government correct and right to put it in place and you were wrong to criticise it then or in your minds is there a state of emergency still and it should remain ?

Or could it just be that it was needed then and its not now and you were wrong to object then and you are wrong to object now simply because some have to automatically oppose whatever the government does as a matter of course.

Last couple of weeks its quietened right down since the numptys ruining and affecting normal peoples ability to work etc in the capital with all these needless sites have packed up. Personally id say the current state of emergency is over and the sooner normality is resumed fully the better and safer everyone will be in the capital.

Edited March 17, 2014 by englishoak

[rubl]

When the CMPO returns back to CAPO will Pol. Captain Chalerm lose his head (as in head CMPO) and will Surapong be head CAPO again?

Now that would probably lead to a renewed explanation to the international diplomatic community and the UN. I mean, our dear caretaker MoFA being in charge of a CAPO overseeing an ISA and having lots of police helping him.

Edited March 18, 2014 by rubl

[rubl]

Is there still a state of emergency in BKK ?

Make up your minds people, pro protesters whined when it was put in place even though it was clearly needed and now once the protest sites have been cleared and some semblance of normality returned your now whining about it being ended ?

so which is it, was the government correct and right to put it in place and you were wrong to criticise it then or in your minds is there a state of emergency still and it should remain ?

Or could it just be that it was needed then and its not now and you were wrong to object then and you are wrong to object now simply because some have to automatically oppose whatever the government does as a matter of course.

Last couple of weeks its quietened right down since the numptys ruining and affecting normal peoples ability to work etc in the capital with all these needless sites have packed up. Personally id say the current state of emergency is over and the sooner normality is resumed fully the better and safer everyone will be in the capital.

You seem to have missed some turns.

I would say that most posters doubted the new of an Emergency Decree which only seemed to cause MORE violence against anti-government protesters. Furthermore since most anti-government protesters concentrated on Lumpini the violence against them seems to have diminished. There seems to have been no reason to keep the EC anay longer and the caretaker government with their CMPO have only been dragging their feet and simply let time pass by and more-or-less let the EC expire with immediately an ISA brought into action.

Now even for that ISA there seems to be no good reason except that maybe k. Surapong can be head again and others can help use up the few billion Baht budget. With tens of thousands of police officers involved one may wonder how the law enforcement situation in their normal posting place currently is. Maybe life elsewhere has improved ?

[englishoak]

Id suggest that since things are now confined to lumpini it is no longer disrupting traffic or business.Also since the Navy got well caught out there are less thugs wandering about armed and confronting police and protesters inciting violence, They are no longer staging rallies and marches and ruining normality either and doing stupid things so much, that is why there is less violence as much as anything.

Same time they are still there and things could kick off at anytime, you dont leave it unattended and your own concern re violence means a deployment of police at short notice is still a possibility and needed, ergo the need for some system to be in place still to react to it such as ISA.

BTW anyone know if the pretend monk Issaras site has been dismantled and where he went ?