Thai PM threatens to bar Yingluck from travelling abroad

BANGKOK: -- Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha Tuesday threatened to bar ousted premier Yingluck Shinawatra from travelling abroad, a day after the publication of her first media interview since May's coup.

Yingluck, who was booted out of office by a controversial court ruling just before the army takeover, has been banned from leaving Thailand without the junta's permission along with hundreds of other politicians, activists, academics and journalists who were briefly detained after the coup.

The ex-premier has since been allowed to travel overseas on two occasions on the condition she adopts a low-profile, but after the publication of the interview Monday, Prayut threatened to revoke that freedom.

"I am considering it and have asked my security staff to look into it," Prayut told reporters after a weekly cabinet meeting in response to a question on whether the junta would bar Yingluck from travelling abroad following Monday's interview.

"We have clear rules. If something triggers chaos or unrest we have measures... If she wants to go overseas then she will not be able to go," he said.

In an interview published Monday the Bangkok Post quoted Yingluck describing her removal from office was as though "suddenly, someone points a gun at my head and tells me to get out of the car while I'm at the wheel driving the people forward".

Prayut hit out at her remarks, saying to reporters: "Who pointed the gun at her?"

In July the junta allowed Yingluck to travel to Europe and the United States and last month she visited Japan and China, meeting her older brother and fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra during both trips.

May's coup was the latest chapter in Thailand's long-drawn political conflict, which broadly pits a Bangkok-based middle class and royalist elite, backed by parts of the military and judiciary, against rural and working-class voters loyal to Thaksin.

A Shinawatra-led or aligned government has been brought to power in every poll since 2001.

After months of retreating from the limelight, Yingluck and Thaksin have started to creep back into public life, much to the consternation of the junta.

Recent photographs of the siblings cuddling pandas during their trip to China's Sichuan province went viral, prompting Prayut to threaten tighter controls over the media unless they stopped "presenting news" about Thaksin.

-- (c) Copyright AFP 2014-11-25

"Who pointed the gun at her?" - If Prayut doesn't know, we've all got problems...

Daddy, she says something no good about me .

The future looks bright for Thailand, NOT?

Are we going to have daily reports of temper tantrums? (Not saying from whom.)

the times are D-changing

"Who pointed the gun at her?" - If Prayut doesn't know, we've all got problems...

She removed herself from office when she dissolved Parliament. No?

"Who pointed the gun at her?" - If Prayut doesn't know, we've all got problems...

No one pointed the gun at her. She is a drama queen seeking attention. No one pointed the gun at her.

No finger pointing allowed -- especially three finger pointing!

She should have said:

While I'm at the wheel driving the people forward to total bankruptcy, Thank Buddha, suddenly, someone points an imaginary gun at my head and tells me to get lost.

Bar her from everything, she was she is and she will be a liability to this country.

But maybe she needs to go to Caltech, to learn all about being a social worker?

"Who pointed the gun at her?" - If Prayut doesn't know, we've all got problems...

No one pointed the gun at her. She is a drama queen seeking attention. No one pointed the gun at her.

What planet are you living on?

She should have said:

While I'm at the wheel driving the people forward to total bankruptcy, Thank Buddha, suddenly, someone points an imaginary gun at my head and tells me to get lost.

Bar her from everything, she was she is and she will be a liability to this country.

She's not the liability. The psychophant [sic] Thaksin is.

Daddy, she says something no good about me .

The future looks bright for Thailand, NOT?

Mummy, things are looking very bad... Let's go home.

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"suddenly, someone points a gun at my head and tells me to get out of the car while I'm at the wheel driving the people forward".

she really means driving the people off the cliff, so she should be thankful she was stopped

Brilliant. Gets better and better. No self exile for you, then!!

It is not a question about what she said, but the fact that she was brave enough to say it!!

About time political leaders from both sides show a little courage!!

"Who pointed the gun at her?" - If Prayut doesn't know, we've all got problems...

She removed herself from office when she dissolved Parliament. No?

She graciously removed herself to allow the people to choose and make avote. She did it out of respect to the people, thinking it would settle the few thousand protesters. If she was not voted back , she would have graciously walked away.if she knew the peoples right would be stolen from them, I dont think she would have stepped down. We will never know what the people would have chosen.

Imagine in a country where 1 billion baht thiefs and LM-accused are released on bail, the most dangerous enemy is considered to be free media!!

Clearly Prayuth sees Ms Yinglucks popularity as a serious threat!!

It's all unravelling ever so slowly for the junta.

Bringing his style of happiness to the thai people is not quite going his way and all were getting day after the day is how unhappy he is.

Now to really top it off he should not only ban her from travelling overseas but to take a leaf out of the Burma juntas how to stage a coup manual 101 and confine her to house arrest.

That one really worked!

Anyway once again the name Yingluck appears and the junta is rattled knowing she was the peoples choice.

Guess the attitude adjustments need a little tweak!

Makes perfect sense, she is a suspected and being charged of massive corruption, for sure she should not be allowed to travel. See what her odious Desert Coward Brother did.

"Yingluck describing her removal from office was AS THOUGH "suddenly, someone points a gun at my head and tells me to get out of the car while I'm at the wheel driving the people forward".

Prayut hit out at her remarks, saying to reporters: "Who pointed the gun at her?"

It was a simile, my dear fellow, a simile - not meant to be taken literally. Either Prayut was being deliberately obtuse, or he's obviously not the sharpest,.. etc, etc,

"Who pointed the gun at her?" - If Prayut doesn't know, we've all got problems...

No one pointed the gun at her. She is a drama queen seeking attention. No one pointed the gun at her.

Try to google the word "metaphor"

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Makes perfect sense, she is a suspected and being charged of massive corruption, for sure she should not be allowed to travel. See what her odious Desert Coward Brother did.

Let's make a deal!! The day Sondhi Limthongkul starts to serve his 20 year sentence, is the day Yingluck appears in court!!

Prayuth, if you really want to keep the Shinawattras out of the limelight, it might be a good idea if you didn't comment on their every move!!

Read the interview yesterday and didn't think much of it, but thanks to your paranoia the Shins are straight back in the headlines again!!

"Who pointed the gun at her?" - If Prayut doesn't know, we've all got problems...

No one pointed the gun at her. She is a drama queen seeking attention. No one pointed the gun at her.

Try to google the word "metaphor":coffee1:

Thanks for the advice, but I think simile is the correct word in this case.

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/what-is-the-difference-between-metaphor-and-simile/

Yingluck was rocking the metaphors! Impressive!

She gives an interview and suddenly she's a threat. A bit controlling, eh?

The natural response is to threaten to keep her in the country. It's like some weird North Korean script with subtitles that make it sound even more ridiculous in English.

Edit: Simile is correct but metaphor sounds better than "rockin' the similes", so I'll own my gaff but leave it as is.

I wouldn't worry about Yingluck talking it's when Prayut opens his own gob that is damaging this army takeover.

She should have said:

While I'm at the wheel driving the people forward to total bankruptcy, Thank Buddha, suddenly, someone points an imaginary gun at my head and tells me to get lost.

Bar her from everything, she was she is and she will be a liability to this country.

Not surprisingly coming from a person, who consider Suthep his hero and would be honoured to shake his hand!!

time to invest in groucho marx glasses and a wig and head for the border ?