Monday, November 09, 2009

[Thai] Government hasn't over-reacted to the Cambodia saga

9/11/2009
Veera Prateepchaikul
Bangkok Post

When Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda made a controversial remark in his recent bid to warn Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, aka "Big Jiew", against joining the Puea Thai Party, I thought he was being a bit too harsh and probably had a negative perception of the opposition party.

As could be expected, Puea Thai felt offended and Big Jiew did not heed the warning, apparently to pursue his final journey in the world of dirty Thai politics.

How could joining the Puea Thai Party be perceived as betraying the country as Gen Prem claims? I didn't get it at all. But I do suspect that there are some in the Puea Thai Party who are so desperate that they will do anything, even soliciting the collaboration of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, to topple the Democrat-led government. Take, for instance, the case of one big shot in the party mailing Hun Sen a VCD containing a speech by Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya criticising the Cambodian premier. Again, I doubt if overthrowing a government constitutes an act of betrayal against the country.

Veera Prateepchaikul is a former editor of Post Publishing Co Ltd
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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Please ask yourself, who comes to the power as Thai Prime Minister through votes? Abishit is elected by military coup where as Thaksin elected by Thais!

Anonymous said...

Ahbullshit came to power only after the Peu Thai party could not secure enough vote to elect its member PM. So, Ahbullshit came to power through a democratic way and is inline with its constitution and practices. I don't need to elaborate about this. The broblem is that both the Yellow shirts and red shirts wants to swallow our land. The red shirts are more dangerous to Cambodia that the yellow ones for the following reasons: The yellow ones want to take the whole Preah Vihea Temple wich is totally impossible for them. On the contrary, the red shirts admit that Preah Vihea is belong to Cambodia but they claimed the 4.6 Km2 that are rich minerals and oil. Mr. Naphadul Pattama, former minister of foeign affairs under Samak govt and is a legal aid to Thaksin, lured Hun Sen govt to keep the 4.6km2 which include the pagoda and the sourounding area as neutral or the so-called white zone. Therefore we could not list the area along with the Preah Vihea Temple as world heritage. Mr. Naphadul is becoming a hero for the red shirts and later on for Thailand that he could get the 4.6km2 from Cambodia. So, the red shirts are very pragmatic, whereas the yellow shirts are very imaginative in terms of negotiations with Hun Sen govt. The red shirts (Mr. Naphadul and Thaksin) gets the 4.6km2 from Cambodia and at the same time make Hun sen and his men happy whereas the yellow shirts got nothings but conflicts with Cambodia.

Thaksin was deposed because the royalists observed that Thaksin introduced Cambodian administration style in leading Thailand. Civil servants need to be members of the then Thai Rak Thai Party in order to be promoted or get a better job. Thaksin men spread rumours that Prachao Taksin is reborn.i.e. Thaksin himself. If Thaksin stayed any longer in power, he would become a dictator like Hun Sen and would deposed the Thai King and to become king himself or at least to reduce to rubble to power of the King like that of Cambodia's King, to become a Republic. So, what Hun Sen govt should do now is to come to an agreement with Ahbullshit govt to nulify the MOU signed with Naphadul regarding the 4.6kms otherwise the conflicts would last for centuries to come.

Anonymous said...

Thailand is fuck up right now! they are bluffing and don't know what to do next....Thaksins is on his way to Phnom Penh....hahahaha! you sign by hand and erase by foots...that's what gonna get bitch!!

Anonymous said...

You Thais people sign with hands and earse by foots, that's what you gonna get bitch!

Anonymous said...

You Siamese People talk one thing, and do other thing behind our back, that's what you gonna get bitch! don't fuck with PM Hun Sen....

Anonymous said...

To Hun Sen (Leader of the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime)

Since you and the CPP assassinated, executed, killed and murdered jurnalists, political opponents, leaders of the free trade union, innocent men, innocent women and innocent children;

Do you have any plan to assassinate the Thai prime minister (Abhisit Vejjajiva)?

Are you going to send Brigade 70 (Hun Sen's Death Squad Unit) to assassinate the Thai prime minister (Abhisit Vejjajiva)?

Is it true, you only kill your own peoples, you will not kill Thai and Veitnamese peoples that cannot get enough of our land?

Is it true, you only kill innocent Khmer peoples with no weapon in their hands?