Arrest warrant issued for former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra over court no show, trial delayed to 27 September

[CaptHaddock]

How could Yingluck Shinawatra have left?

Analysis by Jonathan Head, BBC News, Bangkok

Yingluck Shinawatra was the most high-profile criminal defendant in Thailand and was constantly monitored by the military authorities. So how was she able to leave the country just hours before the verdict was due to be read out? Immigration authorities say they have no record of her leaving the country.

However, it is a poorly-concealed secret that some in the military government would have been happy to see her leave the country before the verdict.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41046993

[Dave67]

Just now, CaptHaddock said:

How could Yingluck Shinawatra have left?

Analysis by Jonathan Head, BBC News, Bangkok

Yingluck Shinawatra was the most high-profile criminal defendant in Thailand and was constantly monitored by the military authorities. So how was she able to leave the country just hours before the verdict was due to be read out? Immigration authorities say they have no record of her leaving the country.

However, it is a poorly-concealed secret that some in the military government would have been happy to see her leave the country before the verdict.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41046993

TV detective, investigators are on it you should have several different answers soon

[metisdead]

Inflammatory posts and replies have been removed. 

[jmccarty]

I still think she is hot!

[poohy]

Shes

 

Found guilty = uprising

Found innocent = uprising 

Of course they let her go !and most probably helped her, simply to save their own necks!

[timewilltell]

A few things to bear in mind.  Thailand is a constitutional monarchy and where does the real power lie?

Whatever the verdict it is hard to see any scenario which brought reconciliation.

If you think the government of today were not watching her then maybe dig a little deeper.

At the end of the day the best for the real power and for the best chance of stability was her skipping off.

Perhaps it was all planned behind the scenes as most things are in Thailand.  She is now not a martyr, has lost significant influence and North is not boiling up trouble.  Seems a beautiful answer to what could have been a very ugly catalyst.  Everyone that really matters now happy.

[Jip99]

54 minutes ago, wakeupplease said:

Do you know that for certain or just guessing like so many do

 

 

Just basing it on fact.

 

 

The fact that there is evidence that it has happened before and without rent-a-mob the numbers would have been much lower. Irrelevant anyway - she has done a runner and maintained the family tradition of cowardice.

[Dumbastheycome]

11 hours ago, gummy said:

Well that will show the world what these judicial scrotes with Junta backing are really about, if they did not know already !!

 

Just think that these morons have now emboldened most of Issan ( at least those that were sitting on the fence previously)  and many of the conscripts in the very army that is telling the judges what to do.  

Or  maybe  have  confirmed the   doubts of  many in  Issan ?  Given that the trial process  has been  long ongoing  and open to observation of  leal  arguement to do a runner says  what?

Inner ear problem?  Is that  the  last  defence against  hearing the  truth? 

[Dumbastheycome]

3 hours ago, dunroaming said:

Well Thailand has been doing that way before Thaksin was in power.  I moved to Thailand before him and although things were marginally worse under him for the poor, he managed to con them into believing he was on their side.

Now the  con is finished in the  main. The   N E  is  now  coming  to  life ! 

[moe666]

That didn't take long

[Winniej]

9 hours ago, rijb said:

Rich kids, rich monks, and rich politicians fleeing the country.  Money rules again.  Time for the junta to change their mindset? 

Time for you to change yours

[George FmplesdaCosteedback]

12 hours ago, webfact said:

Yingluck, who was ousted by a military coup in 2014,

Good old Reuters, they should try reporting the facts once in a while.

 

 

 

[maxman71]

I am not knowledgeable enough to know whether Yingluck's rice pricing/pledging scheme warrants criminal charges/conviction under Thai law.  But as a reasonably successful business person, I do know it sure was an incredibly stupid move on her part. Let her and her incompetence go somewhere else...oops, it appears she already did. Buh-bye Yingluck, and don't let the door slap you on your tush on the way out. And say hi to Thaksin, the Red Bull guy and the rest of your clown show entourage that awaits you outside of Thailand.

[oldlakey]

13 hours ago, impulse said:

 

If they were smart, they sent a limo to take her to the airport and had a private jet fueled up and ready to go wherever she wanted.

 

There's a hundred ways today could have gone tragically bad.

 

Its only a matter of time

[Becker]

1 hour ago, maxman71 said:

I am not knowledgeable enough to know whether Yingluck's rice pricing/pledging scheme warrants criminal charges/conviction under Thai law.  But as a reasonably successful business person, I do know it sure was an incredibly stupid move on her part. Let her and her incompetence go somewhere else...oops, it appears she already did. Buh-bye Yingluck, and don't let the door slap you on your tush on the way out. And say hi to Thaksin, the Red Bull guy and the rest of your clown show entourage that awaits you outside of Thailand.

Uh, you might be a "reasonably successful business person" but to claim that the Red Bull heir is in YL's "clown show entourage" shows that you have unreasonably unsuccessful in grasping much of what's going on in Thailand.

[maxman71]

24 minutes ago, Becker said:

Uh, you might be a "reasonably successful business person" but to claim that the Red Bull heir is in YL's "clown show entourage" shows that you have unreasonably unsuccessful in grasping much of what's going on in Thailand.

Uh, if you were savvy enough to catch I was speaking a bit of tongue in cheek, you would have caught the joke. Have a nice day.

[inThailand]

Som Na Na for taking orders from your brother.

[George FmplesdaCosteedback]

6 hours ago, jmccarty said:

I still think she is hot!

She is now, as hot as an escaped criminal...

[George FmplesdaCosteedback]

10 hours ago, sawadee1947 said:

in facebook you can see her having crossed the Cambodian Border already to say Good Bye to Thailand. Her son is with her. Could it be that the junta reached their goal to eradicate the Shinawatras and are they involved to let her go,?  if......face book do not give fake news.

Isn't social media wonderful, no lies or fake news... just huge profits and little tax.

 

[pomchop]

 Puea Thai party has - under various different names - won every election in Thailand since 2001.

 

 

so much for any pretense of democracy....

[ZAKY]

How can a ex-prime minister pass through immigration and leave thailand when the whole nation knows that she is facing a sentence? While foreigners accused of crime abroad are easily caught by means of Interpol. No sense? 

[George FmplesdaCosteedback]

44 minutes ago, pomchop said:

 Puea Thai party has - under various different names - won every election in Thailand since 2001.

 

 

so much for any pretense of democracy....

Bought and paid for.

[kotsak]

1 hour ago, George FmplesdaCosteedback said:

Entry Of The Gladiators?

 

Sorry I don't see the connection?

It is used as the traditional music at a circus for the parade, I guess that is the point?

 

 

Bingo!

[cosmosis]

21 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Hope she has not done a runner,maybe tending the mushrooms and forgot she had an appointment.

regards worgeordie

Hope she not tending them in a National Forest, otherwise deep doodoo Red Interpol Notice...

[metisdead]

Off topic posts and replies have been removed. 

 

An unintelligible nonsense post has been removed as well. 

[soalbundy]

26 minutes ago, gummy said:

The main thing is that she is safe hopefully and away from the butchers hit squads

Let us not exaggerate, even the junta is more politically capable than to have her killed,that would be a PR disaster to the power of 100

[binjalin]

3 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

Let us not exaggerate, even the junta is more politically capable than to have her killed,that would be a PR disaster to the power of 100

They would never do such a thing, Soulbundy, she would do herself with her shoelaces to coincide with the cameras off.

[soalbundy]

11 minutes ago, binjalin said:

They would never do such a thing, Soulbundy, she would do herself with her shoelaces to coincide with the cameras off.

She, unlike her brother, was never a real threat to the junta,she was just the pretty face to the real power Thaksin.

[Bundooman]

22 hours ago, NanLaew said:

The superficial viewpoint... as always.

A superficial response... as expected!

[owl sees all]

37 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

She, unlike her brother, was never a real threat to the junta,she was just the pretty face to the real power Thaksin.

The Isaan/north people have lost their figurehead for now.

 

They know that there is no-one in this military/elite <snip> that gives a <snip> about them; other than to keep them in their perceived Thai hierarchy place.  

 

Hopefully a jewel will rise from the pebbles and become a champion to help them get a decent shout next time 'round.

 

Thailand belongs to the farmers and the poor people.