Sondhi reports to military junta

[Dogmatix]

Sonthi has been largely inactive since he got shot. He only appeared on the PDRC stage a couple of times and was not involved in any of the aggressive acts like taking over public buildings.

[noitom]

They must have the "letters of transit" or else round them up. Round up the usual suspects. Sounds like a movie being played out live in Thailand.

[Prbkk]

They must have the "letters of transit" or else round them up. Round up the usual suspects. Sounds like a movie being played out live in Thailand.

Yes, but there no one is going to say "Sondhi, this could be the start of a beautiful friendship"

[Skywalker69]

I think most people have forgotten this man, or didn't know him in the first place.

Right, prior to 2004, Sondhi was actually a massive supporter of Thaksin, but they had a massive falling out in 2005.

Thaksin was removed in the 2006 coup, there were massive demonstrations by the yellow shirts during the months prior to the coup. And indeed, the yellow shirts were lead by this man, Sondhi. Sondhi's supporters can claim that Sondhi was the 'main man' in the ousting of the Thaksin government by the coup of 2006.

As most of us know, the coup of 2006 happened, and a general election took place in 2007. A Thaksin party won the 2007 election, and again, Sondhi was organising mass demonstrations against the Thaksin party. Most of us do remember the airport being taken over, and the yellow shirts camped inside the airport.

Sondhi was a supporter of Abhisit, and the demonstrations stopped when Abhisit was put in charge.

A few people might feel that Suthep was/is basically, a new version of Sondhi !

He went very quiet not long after someone shot up his car with him in it, his driver was injured.

Sondhi Limthongkul suffered a head injury when his car was ambushed and riddled with bullets by at least two men in a pickup truck at a petrol station just before dawn, a spokesman for his People's Alliance for Democracy party said. A driver and bodyguard were also wounded, the driver seriously.''

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/apr/17/bangkok-yellow-shirt-shooting-thailand

[chooka]

He's dead Thai looking, especially compared to the guys behind him. I wonder how many Yuan it cost to buy a Thai name like "Sondhi"???

He almost looks like a relation to Mao Tse, or even Thaksin himself... but let's not go there.... international relation importance an' all that,,.. all that... errm... BS

Hope he rots in hell.

Rots in Hell for what exactly?

[millwall_fan]

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Now there's a welcome sight of an air stealing piece of hate filled, racist, human garbage if I ever saw one.

He might be many things but surely not a racist.

Of course he's a racist. Against anyone who's not Thai. but that doesn't make him unique.

He doesn't need to be racist against any non-Thai, as he is racist enough against any Thai who doesn't meet HIS qualifications. Constantly referring to other Thai as "stupid buffalo", or "ignorant farmers", saying that if you don't have at least as Bachelor's degree, you are too stupid to vote, and that only the "elite from BKK" should be allowed to vote and rule, and more, LOTS more. But I agree with a previous poster, once his car was riddled with bullets, with him in it, he pretty much shut his rice hole and vanished under the radar.

So why has he been arrested? That kind of view will be vogue again now. Unfortunately.

Edited May 25, 2014 by millwall_fan