Reconciliation recommendation to be tabled next month

By The Nation

 

Seri

 

The chairman of the political reform committee under the National Reform Steering Assembly said the panel would finish drafting the reconciliation recommendation in February before tabling it to the NRSA meeting for approval.

 

Seri Suwanpanont said there was no hidden agenda behind its recommendation as it was part of the government and the assembly’s reform plans. The recommendation, he said, would make the matter of who received amnesty clear. 

 

He said it would separate cases concerning political leaders and those of ordinary demonstrators for different treatment. Political leaders, he said, must enter a legal process and fight their cases in court, while ordinary demonstrators should have their offences considered case by case. 

 

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"Seri said that using the all-powerful Article 44 of the interim constitution to shortcut processes regarding the issue was a matter for the National Council for Peace and Order. The NRSA would only propose its recommendation, which was still at the preliminary stage."

 

The Thai elites love shortcuts.  You cannot run a nation on shortcuts and interference in the natural order of things comes at a heavy price.  It is better that governments interfere as little as possible and if they must interfere, they should avoid shortcuts.  The elites and the entitled in this country do both and then wonder why things are so broken.

Red Shirts proceed directly to jail, no amnesty.

 

Yellow Shirts carry on, amnesty granted.

 

Reconciliation you'll learn to love, or else.

 

Tabled....humm....a bottomless table? A rhetorical table?