Yingluck under close watch in Chiang Mai

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Yingluck under close watch in Chiang Mai



CHIANG MAI: -- Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was in Chiang Mai today on a trip to pay respect to her ancestors at Rongtham Samakki temple.

Her merit making trip to the temple with a number of relatives attracted the watchful eyes of the Third Army Region, according to Matichon Online.

Army officers were sent to monitor her movement, and soldiers were seen inquiring villagers in Mae Rim district last night where she was reported to have spent the night relaxing at her resort home there.

Checkpoints were set up and soldiers and police were reported to stop the former prime minister’s car convoy for search, the online papers said.

(Photo : Thai PBS File)

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/yingluck-close-watch-chiang-mai


-- Thai PBS 2015-02-10

[Just1Voice]

Ahhh, the paranoia of the paranoid. They afraid she's gonna jump in a tuk tuk, race to CNX, then run to her brother's private jet and be whisked away to Never-Never Land?

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Soldiers Stop & Search Yingluck's Convoy in Chiang Mai
By Khaosod English

CHIANG MAI — Army officers stopped and searched cars traveling in former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's convoy through the northern province of Chiang Mai today.

Yingluck and her aides were headed to Chiang Mai for a religious service when their convoy was stopped at a security checkpoint.

The soldiers identified themselves as officers from the Third Region Army and asked to search all of the vehicles — except for Yingluck’s — for "security reasons."

Yingluck complied, and her motorcade was allowed to proceed shortly afterwards.

According to Lt.Gen. Sathit Pittarat, commander of the Third Region Army, the search was a part of his unit’s routine efforts to stem the narcotic trade and "any movements that may incite chaos."

The general insisted that soldiers at the checkpoint stop every vehicle that passes through, and did not target Yingluck specifically. He also explained that the military officers spared Yingluck's vehicle from the search because they "respected her dignity."

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1423559681


-- Khaosod English 2015-02-10

[Mango Bob]

Yes they better be very concern, she may be up their trying to form a Army or smuggler military arms to the Red Rebels in the area.

[Costas2008]

Yes they better be very concern, she may be up their trying to form a Army or smuggler military arms to the Red Rebels in the area.

Told you before.....this club you are hitting your head with is affecting your brain.

Ease up a little......I love reading your comments.......always a good laugh.

[Thailand]

Simply harassment brought about by paranoia and making sure the Shins are kept in the headlines particularly in their home base, no idea.

The general won't like this one: "He also explained that the military officers spared Yingluck's vehicle from the search because they "respected her dignity."

Edited February 10, 2015 by Thailand

[DaddyWarbucks]

The Shinawatra clan will always be in the news... come hell or high water.

[rasmus5150]

Surely she is trying to go through the Mae Sai border to Burma. Big Brother has lots of friends there. You should have done a "runner" while you could.

[Sparkles]

Yingluck must rue the day she was talked into the job by her brother.Life was good,no stress , little responsibility, no shortage of money,some would say the ideal existence.

She just wasn't intelligent enough to know that she was being handed the poisoned chalice. I wonder what Mr Yingluck feels about the current situation presuming they are still as one.

I hope she and her entourage enjoy their stay,the lull before the storm.

[lungmi]

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Yes they better be very concern, she may be up their trying to form a Army or smuggler military arms to the Red Rebels in the area.

Oh yes, Mango Bob, your are right. Her clan did it already in the North

[MaiChai]

Going to have congee with the ancestors ?

[elgordo38]

Simply harassment brought about by paranoia and making sure the Shins are kept in the headlines particularly in their home base, no idea.

The general won't like this one: "He also explained that the military officers spared Yingluck's vehicle from the search because they "respected her dignity."

I wonder if the respect for her dignity will buy her any mercy once she is in the courtroom.

[Torrens54]

The above report by Thai PBS says, "they went to monitor her movement."

Why, pray tell, would they be examining her "Stools/ Feces?" do they expect to find something incriminating or are they just making sure the former PM is in Good Health?

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Yingluck under close watch
The Nation

Former PM's van stopped in chiang mai, guards' van searched; NACC says she must see prosecutors next week over court indictment

CHIANG MAI: -- DEPUTY Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan denied yesterday that the government ordered security officials to keep a watch on former premier Yingluck Shinawatra because of fear she might flee the country.

On Sunday, the junta denied Yingluck permission to travel overseas — ahead of a trial over accusations that she failed to stop corruption and massive losses in the rice-pledging scheme.

Yesterday the former PM's van was stopped at a security checkpoint in Chiang Mai.

Prawit said local security officials just wanted to ensure that Yingluck was safe and sound, as they do not want a third party to have the chance to create turmoil. "It is part of safety measures carried out with good wishes because she is a former prime-minister. We adopt the same measures when she is in Bangkok. This is not revenge or restrictions against her,'' he said.

Nonetheless, security officials appear to be monitoring the former PM's movements. When Yingluck left her Chiang Mai residence to conduct a merit-making rite for her ancestors with relatives at Wat Rongtham Samakkee in San Kamphaeng district yesterday, officials from the Third Army Region set up checkpoints on the way and stopped Yingluck and her security team's vans. They looked in her van and searched that of her guards.

After the search, she went shopping at San Kamphaeng market and was warmly welcomed by traders and locals. Security officials followed her throughout the day.

Third Army Region spokesman Maj General Thana Jaruwat defended his subordinates who set up checkpoints yesterday, saying they normally check vehicles to see if they are carrying illegal weapons or drugs — there was no intent to check Yingluck's van in particular.

He said the security officials did not conduct a search of Yingluck's van, just opened the door to have a look who she was travelling with. "When soldiers realised that it was her van, they gave her respect as a former prime-minister. They did search the vans of her followers and did not find anything suspicious, so they let them go,'' Thana said.

However, he admitted that security had been stepped up in his jurisdiction after the bombs that were set off near Siam Paragon mall in Bangkok.

Last weekend, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) rejected Yingluck's request to leave the country for Hong Kong, China and the UK, saying her trip should be postponed because public prosecutors are about to indict her in the Supreme Court for criminal wrongdoing — alleged negligence in her oversight of the rice-pledging scheme.

NCPO secretary-general Udomdej Sitabutr said although the NCPO and government had the right to decide if Yingluck can travel abroad, if the court accepts the case on the rice-pledging scheme, it will decide if Yingluck can leave the country.

Her lawyers have accused the junta of violating her rights and liberty — as her case is not due to be filed with the court for at least a week.

Yingluck's lawyer, Norawit Lalang, told The Nation yesterday he would like to ask the authorities to please respect the former PM's privacy and right to travel. He cited Article 4 of the provisional constitution on the protection of human dignity and argued that she should receive that right too.

"It might not be appropriate to inspect her car," he said, adding that Yingluck was now a commoner like other Thai people.

Red-shirt co-leader and former Pheu Thai MP Weng Tojirakarn accused the NCPO of wanting to install a Stalinist system in Thailand after army officers searched Yingluck's van yesterday.

"I don't want to think that this is a Stalinist system where searches can be done to anyone. You are building a Stalinist order in Thailand," said Weng who added that Yingluck would never flee if faced with a jail term related to the rice-pledging scheme. She would not run away but face prison "with dignity".

"Yingluck has already declared that she was willing to die for democracy," Weng said.

Meanwhile, the National Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday requested that Yingluck report to the Office of the Attorney General on Thursday next week, so it can file an indictment against her over the rice-pledging scheme in the Supreme Court.

NACC chairman Panthep Klanarongran said the anti-graft body's secretary-general Sansern Poljiak sent a letter to Yingluck, asking her to report to the OAG at 10am on February 19 so prosecutors can indict her in the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Political Office Holders over the rice scheme.

He said the NACC would also submit a writ next week to the Attorney General against former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyaphirom and others over alleged wrongdoing in a "government-to-government" rice deal.

Yingluck may stay in Chiang Mai till the weekend as she has been invited to join a homecoming party on Saturday by her high school in Chiang Mai.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Yingluck-under-close-watch-30253828.html


-- The Nation 2015-02-11

[Baerboxer]

Yingluck under close watch

The Nation

Former PM's van stopped in chiang mai, guards' van searched; NACC says she must see prosecutors next week over court indictment

CHIANG MAI: -- DEPUTY Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan denied yesterday that the government ordered security officials to keep a watch on former premier Yingluck Shinawatra because of fear she might flee the country.

On Sunday, the junta denied Yingluck permission to travel overseas — ahead of a trial over accusations that she failed to stop corruption and massive losses in the rice-pledging scheme.

Yesterday the former PM's van was stopped at a security checkpoint in Chiang Mai.

Prawit said local security officials just wanted to ensure that Yingluck was safe and sound, as they do not want a third party to have the chance to create turmoil. "It is part of safety measures carried out with good wishes because she is a former prime-minister. We adopt the same measures when she is in Bangkok. This is not revenge or restrictions against her,'' he said.

Nonetheless, security officials appear to be monitoring the former PM's movements. When Yingluck left her Chiang Mai residence to conduct a merit-making rite for her ancestors with relatives at Wat Rongtham Samakkee in San Kamphaeng district yesterday, officials from the Third Army Region set up checkpoints on the way and stopped Yingluck and her security team's vans. They looked in her van and searched that of her guards.

After the search, she went shopping at San Kamphaeng market and was warmly welcomed by traders and locals. Security officials followed her throughout the day.

Third Army Region spokesman Maj General Thana Jaruwat defended his subordinates who set up checkpoints yesterday, saying they normally check vehicles to see if they are carrying illegal weapons or drugs — there was no intent to check Yingluck's van in particular.

He said the security officials did not conduct a search of Yingluck's van, just opened the door to have a look who she was travelling with. "When soldiers realised that it was her van, they gave her respect as a former prime-minister. They did search the vans of her followers and did not find anything suspicious, so they let them go,'' Thana said.

However, he admitted that security had been stepped up in his jurisdiction after the bombs that were set off near Siam Paragon mall in Bangkok.

Last weekend, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) rejected Yingluck's request to leave the country for Hong Kong, China and the UK, saying her trip should be postponed because public prosecutors are about to indict her in the Supreme Court for criminal wrongdoing — alleged negligence in her oversight of the rice-pledging scheme.

NCPO secretary-general Udomdej Sitabutr said although the NCPO and government had the right to decide if Yingluck can travel abroad, if the court accepts the case on the rice-pledging scheme, it will decide if Yingluck can leave the country.

Her lawyers have accused the junta of violating her rights and liberty — as her case is not due to be filed with the court for at least a week.

Yingluck's lawyer, Norawit Lalang, told The Nation yesterday he would like to ask the authorities to please respect the former PM's privacy and right to travel. He cited Article 4 of the provisional constitution on the protection of human dignity and argued that she should receive that right too.

"It might not be appropriate to inspect her car," he said, adding that Yingluck was now a commoner like other Thai people.

Red-shirt co-leader and former Pheu Thai MP Weng Tojirakarn accused the NCPO of wanting to install a Stalinist system in Thailand after army officers searched Yingluck's van yesterday.

"I don't want to think that this is a Stalinist system where searches can be done to anyone. You are building a Stalinist order in Thailand," said Weng who added that Yingluck would never flee if faced with a jail term related to the rice-pledging scheme. She would not run away but face prison "with dignity".

"Yingluck has already declared that she was willing to die for democracy," Weng said.

Meanwhile, the National Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday requested that Yingluck report to the Office of the Attorney General on Thursday next week, so it can file an indictment against her over the rice-pledging scheme in the Supreme Court.

NACC chairman Panthep Klanarongran said the anti-graft body's secretary-general Sansern Poljiak sent a letter to Yingluck, asking her to report to the OAG at 10am on February 19 so prosecutors can indict her in the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Political Office Holders over the rice scheme.

He said the NACC would also submit a writ next week to the Attorney General against former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyaphirom and others over alleged wrongdoing in a "government-to-government" rice deal.

Yingluck may stay in Chiang Mai till the weekend as she has been invited to join a homecoming party on Saturday by her high school in Chiang Mai.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Yingluck-under-close-watch-30253828.html

-- The Nation 2015-02-11

"Red-shirt co-leader and former Pheu Thai MP Weng Tojirakarn accused the NCPO of wanting to install a Stalinist system in Thailand after army officers searched Yingluck's van yesterday.

"I don't want to think that this is a Stalinist system where searches can be done to anyone. You are building a Stalinist order in Thailand," said Weng who added that Yingluck would never flee if faced with a jail term related to the rice-pledging scheme. She would not run away but face prison "with dignity".

"Yingluck has already declared that she was willing to die for democracy," Weng said."

Weng no doubt knows all about Stalinist policies and procedures following his and his wife's training as communists. Does he really believe this crap? Hasn't anyone told him the RTP operated vehicle stop and searches whenever they wanted to before martial law. But of course, he, as a good communist, believes some people are more equal and the rules don't apply to them.

Good job Yingluck's security team weren't carrying any weapons or Swiss Army knives.

[Chicken George]

Ahhh, the paranoia of the paranoid. They afraid she's gonna jump in a tuk tuk, race to CNX, then run to her brother's private jet and be whisked away to Never-Never Land?

Maybe the best solution...

[Cuchulainn]

Ball and chain (preferably attached using a lump hammer and rusty bolt by a blind alcoholic with Parkinson's)

[Alwyn]

so does anybody (except Costas of course) still believe this kangaroo court action is not politically motivated?

[khaowong1]

Damned if you do and damned if you don't. If Yingluck made a jump into Burma, the press would be all over the General like white on rice.