Apinya Wipatayotin
Bangkok Post
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Saturday dismissed an opposition claim that an assassination plot had been hatched against Thaksin Shinawatra, insisting that the government would only use legal means to bring him back to serve his two-year jail sentence.
In his first comment on the leak of a classified document to the Puea Thai Party from a source at the Foreign Ministry, the prime minister, speaking from Copenhagen, said the government would strictly abide by the law in its efforts to bring back Thaksin.
"I have no idea where that document came from. But I can assure you that the government will not take any unlawful steps in seeking his return," he said.
Only extradition treaties the government has signed with other countries would be used to try to bring the convicted former prime minister back to serve his time, he said.
Thaksin was sentenced in October last year while he was out of the country to a two-year jail term in the Ratchadaphisek land case for helping his ex-wife acquire a prime piece of state land at a heavily discounted price.
Puea Thai representative Jatuporn Prompan, a leader of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, on Friday unveiled a secret document, dated Nov 16, that he claimed was prepared for the prime minister by Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya.
The document, which mainly focused on how Thailand should handle its relations with Cambodia amid the diplomatic spats, described Thaksin as a "key factor" in the destabilisation of the government. The Thaksin threat needed to be tackled, it said.
Mr Jatuporn interpreted it as a life-threatening measure against Thaksin. After the document was disclosed, the ministry set up a panel to find out how it ended up in the hands of the opposition.
Acting government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn said only a few senior officials were aware of the existence of the classified paper.
Mr Jatuporn yesterday indicated that the opposition party and the UDD will not end its efforts to bring down the government and denied any wrongdoing in revealing the contents of the confidential document to the public.
The prime minister condemned the opposition party, saying it had gone too far by using dirty tricks which were damaging to the government and the country.
In his first comment on the leak of a classified document to the Puea Thai Party from a source at the Foreign Ministry, the prime minister, speaking from Copenhagen, said the government would strictly abide by the law in its efforts to bring back Thaksin.
"I have no idea where that document came from. But I can assure you that the government will not take any unlawful steps in seeking his return," he said.
Only extradition treaties the government has signed with other countries would be used to try to bring the convicted former prime minister back to serve his time, he said.
Thaksin was sentenced in October last year while he was out of the country to a two-year jail term in the Ratchadaphisek land case for helping his ex-wife acquire a prime piece of state land at a heavily discounted price.
Puea Thai representative Jatuporn Prompan, a leader of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, on Friday unveiled a secret document, dated Nov 16, that he claimed was prepared for the prime minister by Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya.
The document, which mainly focused on how Thailand should handle its relations with Cambodia amid the diplomatic spats, described Thaksin as a "key factor" in the destabilisation of the government. The Thaksin threat needed to be tackled, it said.
Mr Jatuporn interpreted it as a life-threatening measure against Thaksin. After the document was disclosed, the ministry set up a panel to find out how it ended up in the hands of the opposition.
Acting government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn said only a few senior officials were aware of the existence of the classified paper.
Mr Jatuporn yesterday indicated that the opposition party and the UDD will not end its efforts to bring down the government and denied any wrongdoing in revealing the contents of the confidential document to the public.
The prime minister condemned the opposition party, saying it had gone too far by using dirty tricks which were damaging to the government and the country.
10 comments:
Abhisit - it's okay if you really have planned to do that don't forget his enternal friend too.
Tuk kar min chamnenh Dork chenh kar min khat.
With cambodian help, Thaksin will reclaim his throne back as a Red Shirts HERO..
It's about time to teach Thailand some lessons anyway! Thailand has look down on Khmer for so long, i'm proud for PM Hun Sen has done so far...keep up sir!
Whatever it take to defeat and killed the aggressor neighbors, i'm proud with PM Hun Sen for what he had done and stance strong for our country...
correction = neighbors aggressor
Look out! Youn is getting closer to Thailand. Less than 70 years Thailand will change its name to Vietland.
I have bad feeling that Vietnam will split Thailand with Hun Sen...
Hun Sen needs to worry about matters that concern the Khmer people. He needs to stop playing these political games that makes him look foolish and uncivilized to the rest of the world. Let me remind you that you Have more important things to worry about. Please work on ending land-grabbing/forced evictions, end the corruption that is prevalent in your government, stop controlling the Judiciary branch to drive your agenda, start creating jobs, provide decent healthcare, free education that is acceptable by international standards, stop silencing/murdering opposition leaders and reporter and free us from the Viet installed government!
If you can start on this, maybe when you burn in Hell, it will be quick, you won't suffer nearly as much as the sufferings that you have created for the millions of Khmer people.
6;28pm.
Hun Sen has no such intelligence to decide what to do or not to do, he is just a puppet of Hanoi; and the thugs of Hanoi who orchastrated this mess to help China for Thaksin to return to power, and for its own Hanoi's expansionism in Cambodia to Thailand.
And all the hard work Hanoi thugs do, China will take all ASEAN at last.
That is called distraction.
When Hun Sen is not able to create job for young Khmers, he fakes to be busy with something else.
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