AFP
HUA HIN, Thailand - Cambodian premier Hun Sen on Friday offered Thaksin Shinawatra a job as finance adviser if the ousted Thai leader seeks refuge with him, upping tensions with Thailand at an Asian summit.
Hun Sen reiterated an invitation to Thaksin to stay in Cambodia and rejected Thai claims that Phnom Penh would have to extradite the billionaire politician, who was toppled in a 2006 coup and fled Thailand last year.
"Thaksin can stay in Cambodia as a guest of Cambodia. He can also be my adviser on the economy," Hun Sen told reporters after arriving in the Thai beach resort of Hua Hin for the summit of Asian leaders.
"Our concern is for humanitarian reasons, it is friends helping friends.
The internal affairs of Thailand would be left for Thai people to resolve, I am not interfering."
Relations between Cambodia and Thailand have been difficult since June 2008 amid an ongoing border conflict, but have plunged further since Hun Sen made his first invitation to Thaksin earlier this week.
Thaksin is living in exile after fleeing Bangkok in August last year to avoid a two-year jail term for corruption. He is believed to be living mainly in Dubai.
He has angered the Thai government by staging a series of phone-ins from abroad to mass rallies in Bangkok by his supporters, known as the "Red Shirts".
But the Cambodian government said earlier Friday that under treaties between the two nations it could reject a request for Thaksin's extradition because it would be made on the grounds of "political offence".
Hun Sen said that he was not taking sides against the Thai government, which came to power in December last year after rival "Yellow Shirts" seized Bangkok's airports to help bring down the previous, pro-Thaksin administration.
"Don't accuse Hun Sen of supporting Thaksin in the politics of the Red Shirts," Hun Sen said.
Thai officials said there were no plans yet for any meeting between Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Hun Sen at the Hua Hin summit.
Hun Sen reiterated an invitation to Thaksin to stay in Cambodia and rejected Thai claims that Phnom Penh would have to extradite the billionaire politician, who was toppled in a 2006 coup and fled Thailand last year.
"Thaksin can stay in Cambodia as a guest of Cambodia. He can also be my adviser on the economy," Hun Sen told reporters after arriving in the Thai beach resort of Hua Hin for the summit of Asian leaders.
"Our concern is for humanitarian reasons, it is friends helping friends.
The internal affairs of Thailand would be left for Thai people to resolve, I am not interfering."
Relations between Cambodia and Thailand have been difficult since June 2008 amid an ongoing border conflict, but have plunged further since Hun Sen made his first invitation to Thaksin earlier this week.
Thaksin is living in exile after fleeing Bangkok in August last year to avoid a two-year jail term for corruption. He is believed to be living mainly in Dubai.
He has angered the Thai government by staging a series of phone-ins from abroad to mass rallies in Bangkok by his supporters, known as the "Red Shirts".
But the Cambodian government said earlier Friday that under treaties between the two nations it could reject a request for Thaksin's extradition because it would be made on the grounds of "political offence".
Hun Sen said that he was not taking sides against the Thai government, which came to power in December last year after rival "Yellow Shirts" seized Bangkok's airports to help bring down the previous, pro-Thaksin administration.
"Don't accuse Hun Sen of supporting Thaksin in the politics of the Red Shirts," Hun Sen said.
Thai officials said there were no plans yet for any meeting between Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Hun Sen at the Hua Hin summit.
12 comments:
What's the motherfucker ( ah Kwack Hun Xen)is thinking. He rule the laws on his fucking benefit on the suffering and lives of Cambodian again?
What Chae Sim and MPs, Heng Sarim and Senates, or The King have to say about the possible war with Thailand becuase as Kwack want to show his fucking loyalship to his frien and currupte-advisors?
AH Kwack do you remember what you just said in front of your son during the open of your fucking suppresing killing Briguard?
Are you teaching your fucking son to lie?????
Motherfucker ah Kwack may lightning strike the evil liked you, soon!
Not good for khmer people,if Hun Sen do like this.
9:49PM.
If you are the leader of a weak and small nation like Cambodia attacking by Thai army trying to rob your land and ancient Temple, what would you do? Furtheremore, Thai army burned your teen alive?
It is easy to curse and insult Hun Sen because of hatred, but do you have solutions to resolve the matters? You know politicians will say everything to get by?
Now you are supporting the PAD thugs in Bangkok who ousted the real elected Prime Minster whose million of red shirts supported him.
What kind of democracy is this for the Thai government and their people? They always overthrow elected people that they don't like. It's not democracy; it is dictatorship run by their king. They should overthrow their king and declare the republic of Thailand.
Thaksin is doing nonething wrong, but the king called for the coup de tart.
Khmer people should overthrow and trash CPP and royal family into ocean. Then declare Cambodia as Republic of Kampuchea.
May be Lao, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, and Thailand should coordinate and overthrow all their governments together at the same time. Because all of these leaders are bad and urgly. They're all dictators in SE Asia.
CHINA must move in and stop Vietnam from colonize SOUTH EAST ASIAN...i hope China not too stupid to allow Vietnam doing this...
Hun Sen Eing sass eiy bann Chea
ploeu eiy mless.
9:49, you are pul or what? are you khmer or not? you are like chhke pul who pruss always although Hun Sen is right or wrong.
Would you continue, if you are a Cambodian, to maintain relation with unreliable, thick-faced, and stupidly arrogant Kasit?
Do you ever hear that Cambodians were shot and burnt brutally by cruel thai military?
Do you know Abhisit and his government sent their yellow shirts to Preah Vihear to chase your compatriots from their land? Do you know that? and do you know also that those yellow shirted guys fought with thai villagers finally not with Cambodians? Do you know actual thai goverment's intention?
Do you know what thai goverment is playing with Cambodia, do you know that?
7:51, what should Hun Sen do then to become a smart person?
Good jobs PM Hun Sen! cambodia is moving forward and become moderns..
Khet Kandal will be High rise building, more jobs are coming for yuths...don't worry be happy!
Chey Yo Samdach dacho Hun Sen! cambodia will give Thailand more headache, Thailand is sinking, cambodia is rising up and up up up up!
God punish sinners in Thailand, too many gays, lesbians....repent!
hun sen associates with his ugly criminal friend thaksin, therefore he's a criminal as well
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