Former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra has fled Thailand for Singapore - report

[StayinThailand2much]

10 minutes ago, MaxLee said:

Noticing a trend here????

Shinaw(h)at...-day are you going to run away from justice...?

[craigt3365]

1 minute ago, Ricardo said:

 

"Senior police official Sriwara Rangsibhramakul told CNN that there was no official record of Yingluck leaving the country, which would suggest she slipped into a neighbouring country first by crossing over a land border.  Asked if it was possible she fled via a natural land border, Rangsibhramakul would only say: "That is possible."  "

 

The above, reported by CNN 9-hours-ago, suggests that you may be mistaken.   
 

She was barred from leaving the country. But escorted to Koh Chang by a senior government official,  as reported by CNN also. Where she left by helicopter.

[Ricardo]

1 hour ago, StealthEnergiser said:

do they read the verdict in her absence ?

 

Unforunately not, they set another date next month, instead.

 

Like other posters previously, on this and other threads, I wonder why they didn't just press-ahead, and announce what her verdict/sentence would have been, or indeed still is ?  The mysteries of Thai justice.

[scotchonrocks]

This should not come as a surprise. It was crystal clear what was going to happen. She's a puppet of her brother <deleted> and if you want to know what she will do (and has done)  then just look at history.

[anto]

15 hours ago, Godang said:

Submarine.

Paraglider ? No probably not .When you have unlimited funds by any normal persons standard the options are limitless .

[sawadee1947]

Actually she waited with her decision to leave Thailand up to the verdict concerning her colleague. 42 years is unreal and inhuman.

Her move out of this country was the right step out of a country full of injustice, hatred and revenge.

There will be a time to come back.

The moment of reconciliation has passed now with those sentences. Prayut is lead by vengeance I suppose. The chance to become a great statesman is not his determined role. And Thailand definitely is not moving forward with him.

[TheFishman1]

Unwritten rule here you steal money then they let you have it and let you do a run she has nothing to worry about and will live a very good life just like all the rich ones here TIT

[jing jing]

1 hour ago, ChidlomDweller said:

It's not 50/50 at all among the foreigners I mingle with (mostly mid-career professionals).   Nearly all support the democratic process, which is a very different thing from supporting Yingluck.  I don't know a single foreigner here who believes the current junta represents anything other than a power grab.   You just get a very vocal minority here (and Thailand attracts probably more very weird men than any country) so that's useless for determining the relative size of the camps.  

Problem is, with a mostly poor and uneducated electorate, whoever offers the most generous compensation for their vote will win every time.  Doesn't matter that it's all just a lie told to get into power; any politician who was honest would never stand a chance of being elected here.

 

The whole charade is so predictable if you stop to think about it, yet most westerners can never really quite fathom how things work here.

[CGW]

42 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

She was at the core of this biased and greedy political system.  LOL

What nonsense, so "they"  were worse than the fine political figures like Prem, Suchinda & the Butcher of Bangkok! "They" remain the best Thailand has ever had, which doesn't say a lot! If you consider anyone in history to have been any better do share!

Folks should get in touch with the reality of politics and stop jumping on the bandwagon!

[craigt3365]

2 minutes ago, CGW said:

What nonsense, so "they"  were worse than the fine political figures like Prem, Suchinda & the Butcher of Bangkok! "They" remain the best Thailand has ever had, which doesn't say a lot! If you consider anyone in history to have been any better do share!

Folks should get in touch with the reality of politics and stop jumping on the bandwagon!

Where did i say the others aren't also bad? Calm down.

[AGareth2]

if she traveled through Singapore why is Singapore denying it?

[craigt3365]

Just now, AGareth2 said:

if she traveled through Singapore why is Singapore denying it?

It's all unproven right now as to exactly how she made her escape. We may never know the truth.

[hobz]

16 hours ago, choff56 said:

Then can you or anybody else in this thread with the same theory please explain to me why the junta would start this farce of a trial in the first place. Your giving a blind repressive military dic Junta too much credit. Anybody in Thailand with money can buy their way out without a passport. Yingluck can still play the martyr card from outside of Thailand where she can definitely do more to finally stop military rule. The repressive Thai Junta's hate of social media just went up a few notches today. The masses will win this war.

You could be right ofcourse, im not all knowing.

But maybe the trial couldnt be stopped. I mean, one of the main reasons they took power was to stop corruption and to investigate the rice pledging scheme.

Abother reason was to use it as leverage to get YL out of the country, just like what happened.

 

You say in the end masses will win. Again, you may be right, but i dont see, and most experts seems to agree that thailand will get out of military rule for the next 20 years. During these 20 years the real bangok elite puppet masters will take control with an iron grip.

 

Or put another way: the only way the current junta loses control is when the masses are ready to fight. I dont think the masses will be ready to fight (and risk their lives or freedom) just because YL is a martyr abroad.. If YL is behind bars looning  40 years they might get upset enough to overthrow.. But not now....

 

Now thailands only "hope" out is democracy in 20-30 years after military rule or that there is a financial crisis that makes the masses willing to fight. 

[FreddieRoyle]

13 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

It's all unproven right now as to exactly how she made her escape. We may never know the truth.

Why would she need to travel through Singapore? The logical way would be from an airport in Cambodia direct to Dubai without a refueling stop. Any mid size biz jet could do this.

[bdenner]

15 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

It's all unproven right now as to exactly how she made her escape. We may never know the truth.

And we probably need don't too! IMHO this escape had to be planned for years and as soon as some "mole" in the justice system, I use the term VERY loosely, became aware of the verdict set that plan in motion. AND I don't blame her, 42 years handed down to Boonsong is an absolute joke and travesty of justice in anyone's language!

[Assurancetourix]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

PM admits he has no idea about Ms Yingluck’s whereabouts

 

Quel faux-cul !

Sorry for the french words; don't know how u can write that in english : he's two faced  ; thank u my old Harrap's Shorter dictionnary ..

He knows, because he, they, the military governemt , push her in a plane to where she wants to go .

So now they can say : she ran away, she fled;

yes with a bayonet at her ass...

What she could do ?

 

 

[shanesox]

Ah and all the red morons still love her


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[jayboy]

What a lying cheating bitch?? Typical of her family, going gets rough, exit the building!! How did she manage to leave... more money under the counter!!
So much for her loyal supporters, in end all about ...Me, Me, Me! 
Proves her allegiance to people was all a BIG LIE.....
"Puppeteer from Dubai", whether Pa or Bro, will take care!! 

Thank you for that sophisticated and intelligent analysis.


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[shanesox]

The rich aka the elite....1         The people aka the poor.....0
Once again with help of the "independent" judiciary....

Really! Naive or stupid or maybe both


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[CGW]

6 minutes ago, hobz said:

 I mean, one of the main reasons they took power was to stop corruption and to investigate the rice pledging scheme.

I would seriously question this statement?

If there is any truth in it they have done a lousy job of stopping corruption, but then they did hand control back to the folks who had lost the rights to control the endemic corruption!

[scotchonrocks]

16 hours ago, ManilaJoe said:

Yingluck in jail too much problems for the country. Best solution for the military as well as the red shirts. Very likely that some kind of arrangement has be made behind the scene.

ManilaJoe

Not "very likely" but definitely. All these matters will have been arranged and negotiated by one man with the name Taksin.

[craigt3365]

12 minutes ago, bdenner said:

And we probably need don't too! IMHO this escape had to be planned for years and as soon as some "mole" in the justice system, I use the term VERY loosely, became aware of the verdict set that plan in motion. AND I don't blame her, 42 years handed down to Boonsong is an absolute joke and travesty of justice in anyone's language!

For committing multiple crimes at such a massive level?  42 years is about right. Sends a strong message to others.

[Bung]

A chopper files a flight plan to Phnom Phen from bkk,  then detours to Koh  Chang,  pick's up a waiting YL at some rich friends back yard,  flies to PP where big bro has a private jet waiting, Hung Sen willingly helps as a favour owed or favour returned (not to mention it may be him and his family needing help to flee one day),  all done on a Montenegrin passport,  arrives in Dubai with said passport  and a Cambodian exit stamp. If she went to Singapore first it was to do banking or some similar business.   

Quite simple. 

[khounteen]

21 hours ago, billd766 said:

 

Equally amazing is that Yingluck had been charged, been to court and was awaiting a verdict and yet the Red Bull heir has not been to court yet.

One is the junta's enemy, the other is an elite whom the junta was suppose to protect.

[baboon]

7 minutes ago, Bung said:

A chopper files a flight plan to Phnom Phen from bkk,  then detours to Koh  Chang,  pick's up a waiting YL at some rich friends back yard,  flies to PP where big bro has a private jet waiting, Hung Sen willingly helps as a favour owed or favour returned (not to mention it may be him and his family needing help to flee one day),  all done on a Montenegrin passport,  arrives in Dubai with said passport  and a Cambodian exit stamp. If she went to Singapore first it was to do banking or some similar business.   

Quite simple. 

And all the while the junta appointed 24 hour watch detail see nothing? 

[bdenner]

11 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

For committing multiple crimes at such a massive level?  42 years is about right. Sends a strong message to others.

The thing is he obviously did not do it off his own bat, as a political party they had to best fix a (maybe well intentioned) plan that went badly wrong. Has it been proved he personally made a financial gain?

[soalbundy]

He must be the only person in Thailand who doesn't know where she is which is strange since he probably conspired to arrange it.

[AGareth2]

1 minute ago, baboon said:

And all the while the junta appointed 24 hour watch detail see nothing? 

probably on the chopper

[baboon]

4 minutes ago, AGareth2 said:

probably on the chopper

And that strikes you as likely, does it?

[AGareth2]

Just now, baboon said:

And that strikes you as likely, does it?

yes