Reconciliation a responsibility of all Thais: PM

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Reconciliation a responsibility of all Thais: PM

By WASAMON AUDJARINT 
JAKRAWAN SALAYTOO 
THE NATION

 

PRIME MINISTER General Prayut Chan-o-cha

 

Unlawful protests key point of junta’s social contract plan, says Prayut.

BANGKOK: -- PRIME MINISTER General Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday said all Thai citizens have to take responsibility if the reconciliation plan fails. 

 

In response to key red-shirt leader Jatuporn Promphan calling for the junta to take responsibility for any failure in the reconciliation plan, Prayut said he alone could not force everyone to reconcile with others. “We are just a facilitator. Reconciliation requires the cooperation of all stakeholders, factions, politicians and political groups. I think they agreed well [with the aspects],” Prayut said at his weekly press briefing . 

 

The military-organised social contract draft is going through the last nationwide forum this week and is expected to be publicised and accepted by political figures and civil sectors soon.

 

The forum in Bangkok on Monday was shunned by key politicians as well as the People’s Democratic Reform Foundation, the Democrat-spin-off group led by Suthep Thaugsuban.

 

Only red-shirt head Jatuporn was present at the meeting.

 

The agreement is said to contain 10 aspects related to national development from politics, inequality, the law and justice process, and the economy, to the junta-hyped reform and strategies.

 

Among the aspects, Prayut stressed unlawful demonstration as the most important point in the plan.

 

He urged that no “unlawful” demonstration should ever occur again once reconciliation bears fruit. “The future government will have to stop protests from happening anymore,” Prayut said. “The charter, the assembly bill, they all have been in place. Can people violate them?”

 

The junta is also known to enforce its order prohibiting political assembly of five people or more. Having been in effect since the 2014 coup, the order has not only barred political parties from holding meetings but it has also been used against civilians whose movement was deemed to question the junta’s action.

 

Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday said that his party would cooperate with principles raised in the agreement but it should be worked on further to make it more practical.

 

The Democrat Party was represented by its ex-MP Thana Cheerawanit during a public forum session. Abhisit had gone to provide opinions on the agreement.

 

Abhisit said he had yet to see additional comments from Prayut on the agreement, as he had not received the agreement draft yet.

 

Deputy PM and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan said that the agreement would still have to go through further amendments and reviews. “But overall feedback is good,” he said. In a related development, Prayut revealed that 527,956 people have so far submitted their answers to his “four questions” on the election and the next government.

 

Provinces with the highest submission were Khon Kaen, Nakhon Ratchasima and Ubon Ratchathani. The lowest totals came from Samut Sakhon, Phetchaburi and Phrae. Launched in early June, the campaign has been run countrywide at Dhamrongthamma complaint centres. 

 

The Interior Ministry collects all the answers every 10 days, categorising them and forwards them to the PM’s Office.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30321119

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-07-19

[Thechook]

So Prayuth is duck shoving blame already.

 

"All Thai citizens have to take responsibility if the reconciliation plan fails"

 

Prayuth forces his personal agenda aggressively on citizens and threatens to arrest those who don't embrace or dare to question his military government.  This is his reconciliation and if people don't love and embrace it then they are to blame.  

 

A bit like a woman who has been involved in an abuse marriage and walks out.  Husband arranges reconciliation with a conciliator of his choice, terms are wife gets back to the kitchen, is primed on her knees on the bed at 9 p.m sharp.  These terms aren't open to negotiation and if she doesn't like it, she gets a slap and he keeps the house, shackles, kids and dog.  The look on his face in the photo says it all,  that's my terms.

Edited July 19, 2017 by Thechook

[shanesox]

Real question is " what has this guy achieved in 3 years of virtually complete freedom to do what he wants"? Answer "nothing, other than remove demonstrators from streets and pass a form of marshal law !


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[jaywalker]

5 minutes ago, shanesox said:

Real question is " what has this guy achieved in 3 years of virtually complete freedom to do what he wants"? Answer "nothing, other than remove demonstrators from streets and pass a form of marshal law !


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You forgot the Pattaya beach chairs and submarines.

[Samui Bodoh]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

“We are just a facilitator. Reconciliation requires the cooperation of all stakeholders, factions, politicians and political groups.

 

When you set a panel of generals to oversee the reconciliation process and have it on military bases, you are NOT a facilitator.

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Among the aspects, Prayut stressed unlawful demonstration as the most important point in the plan.

 

If you actually believe this, where were you in 2014? Oh yeah, you like the idea of no street protests AFTER you get what you want. Rank hypocrisy.

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Prayut revealed that 527,956 people have so far submitted their answers to his “four questions” on the election and the next government.

 

In another story, Prayut claimed that he had read ALL the submissions for his four questions. He read over 500,000? I call BS!

 

[Eric Loh]

8 minutes ago, shanesox said:

Real question is " what has this guy achieved in 3 years of virtually complete freedom to do what he wants"? Answer "nothing, other than remove demonstrators from streets and pass a form of marshal law !


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He did stop the staged Bangkok shutdown and a fantasy civil war. Junta supporters like to quote those. 

[Lupatria]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Reconciliation a responsibility of all Thais

Then why are they not allowed to voice their opinions after their basic human rights were cut?

[rkidlad]

So to sum this up:

 

PM: Like me! Like my ideas!

Som Chai: "Eh......I've been given barely enough education to perform"

PM: "This is all your fault!"

 

It reminds me a lot of how my old Thai boss used to speak to the 'underlings'. Bark incoherent orders and get mad when they weren't understood or followed. Heaven forbid you ever asked for clarification. 

[YetAnother]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

n response to key red-shirt leader Jatuporn Promphan calling for the junta to take responsibility for any failure in the reconciliation plan, Prayut said he alone could not force everyone to reconcile with others. “We are just a facilitator. Reconciliation requires the cooperation of all stakeholders, factions, politicians and political groups. I think they agreed well [with the aspects],” Prayut said at his weekly press briefing .

the person first mentioned here would be the last to reconcile with anything; embodies why reconciliation will never happen here

[Cadbury]

1 hour ago, jaywalker said:

You forgot the Pattaya beach chairs and submarines.

And the attire of lewd twirking dancers, footpaths and the lottery. 

[klauskunkel]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

PRIME MINISTER General Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday said all Thai citizens have to take responsibility if the reconciliation plan fails. 

It was your plan. You planned it. You implemented it. If it succeeds, you will take credit. If it fails, it's the Thai people's fault.

[jaywalker]

6 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

And the attire of lewd twirking dancers, footpaths and the lottery. 

Too bad she came down with a case of "Non-Twerkiness" recently.

 

Pattaya sometimes does that to men & women alike. 

 

 

[phantomfiddler]

A Bangkok taxi driver once told me that the ONLY honest man in Thailand was thaksin ! Reconciliation can never take place in his and millions of other like minded brains, and one cannot blame this on Prayut. The country,s most corrupt leader ever managed to fool so many uneducated rural people that true reconciliation can only come with education, and this is going to take generations.

[yellowboat]

1 hour ago, Eric Loh said:

He did stop the staged Bangkok shutdown and a fantasy civil war. Junta supporters like to quote those. 

The comments about it being the average Thai's obligation to make reconciliation work are the ramblings from a delusional man who has only known privilege and entitlement his whole life. 

 

It is totally shameful that his supporters refer to other Thais as lawless when it is they who took the entire country at gun point because of a few bags of rice. 

[DM07]

46 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

And the attire of lewd twirking dancers, footpaths and the lottery. 

"...but what the Romans ever done for us?"

(I am being sarcastic, of course! The achievement of this "government, acting for 3 years, without any opposition and the literal "freedom" to do as they please, are laughable!)

[YetAnother]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

General Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday said all Thai citizens have to take responsibility if the reconciliation plan fails. 

i see, so the so-called reconciliation plan being forced on everyone by the rulers is NOT the responsibility of the military dictatorship; they dont seem to be responsible for much

[joecoolfrog]

2 hours ago, phantomfiddler said:

A Bangkok taxi driver once told me that the ONLY honest man in Thailand was thaksin ! Reconciliation can never take place in his and millions of other like minded brains, and one cannot blame this on Prayut. The country,s most corrupt leader ever managed to fool so many uneducated rural people that true reconciliation can only come with education, and this is going to take generations.

Thaksin was certainly corrupt , thoroughly unpleasant as well and a large segment of his support probably were relatively ' uneducated '. 

What you fail to mention however , and I doubt it was unintentional , is that he actually did something for the rural masses. For sure it was not done for anything other than cynical reasons , and we are only talking monetary scraps , but those scraps were more than anybody had given , or even considered giving , before.

[Srikcir]

10 hours ago, webfact said:

“We are just a facilitator. Reconciliation requires the cooperation of all stakeholders, factions,

In other words, the military does not involve itself in any actual reconciliation process.

The military recently stated that it doesn't need reform because it constantly reforms itself. It needs no outside evaluation. But it will use its extra-constitutional absolute power that supersedes the Thai People's Constitution to direct THEIR reconciliation whether they agree to it or not. And the "not" will be "noted."

 

[sandemara]

Is it possible Pollyanna ran away from a movie career with Disney Inc. many years ago and has been heading up the Thai military's training programs ever since?