Prayut rejects panel’s suggestion for Prem-era reconciliation policies
By WASAMON AUDJARINT
SAKDA SAMERPHOP 
THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- ONE DAY after a reform panel suggested adopting measures similar to those practised in the Cold War era to reconcile political blocs, junta chiefs debunked the concept as irrelevant to current circumstances.

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha said that the 66/2523 policy, adopted by the government of then-PM General Prem Tinsulanonda in 1980 to counter communism in the Kingdom, was meant to deal with people of different doctrines equipped with heavily armed forces.

 

“But the doctrine is not what is dividing our country now,” Prayut, head of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), said at his weekly press briefing. “I want everyone to think twice [about the idea].”

 

His deputy and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan also rejected the idea, suggested by the National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) panel on reconciliation on Monday, reasoning that he doesn’t want to use legal tools to make every party compromise.

 

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If it doesn't help him he no care TIT

7 hours ago, webfact said:

“I want everyone to think twice [about the idea].”

Become heavily armed so the government has to deal with people of different doctrines?

Maybe best not to want everyone to think twice.