Tuesday, January 18, 2011

TPN [Yellow Shirt] protesters submit petition to [Thai] King

18/01/2011
Bangkok Post

About 1,000 protesters of the Thai Patriots Network marched from in front of the Government House to the grand palace on Tuesday morning and lodged a petition against the government to His Majesty the King.

They said the government had failed in its handling of the Thai-Cambodian border dispute and not done enough to secure the release of the seven Thais detained in Cambodia.

The protesters, led by Chaiwat Sinsuwong, began to move on foot at 9.59am from the Government House despite having learned that four more Thais arrested in Cambodia, except Veera Somkwamkid, a TPN coordinator, have been granted bail.

Mr Chaiwat, holding a lamp and a list of 82,000 names of TPN supporters, led the procession.


The protesters arrived at the Grand Palace at 11.15am. They lodged the petition at the Wiset Chaisri gate.

Mr Chaiwat alleged that the Thai and Cambodian government had conspired to release the four Thais and keep Mr Veera in detention to prevent him from returning to take part in the protest.

Although six of the seven Thais had been freed on bail, the TPN's objective is to bring all seven of them back to Thailand, he said.

The TPN would further announce a new protest - this one against the country's justice process, he added.

Pol Maj-Gen Wichai Sangprapai said 450 policemen had been assigned to maintain law and order during the TPN protest.

Thawil Pliensri, secretary-general of the National Security Council, said a rally like the one being held by the TPN would continue to take place as long as there is not a law on public gatherings.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sam rainsy I feel sorry to those who used to believed in you.
if we consider the statistice or or national census, we have about 5,7 millions population in 1980. for every 20 years it doulbe the number, now 32 years it about 14 million it just right fiquer. yes there are some veitnamese lived in Cambodia but, if like you said 5 million it must 1 of them live next to every Cambodian house, please give sense of fairness. Being exagerate in politice or in convincing some one, smart people they don't do that, wasn't it right? people will find out some day it make you looked like you are a lier. do you have any concret profe or absolut profe to me does Sam rainsy he truly a Khmer compatriot? really? Now looke into the Past, any one heard about Sam rainsy durring darknese period from 1975 to 1992, Sam Rainsy he graduated in 1978, he knew everything happen in cambodia, why we never heard about him. Just say the truth okay, Sam is chinese, chinese Sam is Chines not khmer he try all posible tools to get power and robe more money from Khmer, all of you in here, you should see the only way Khmer compatriot does to his nation is those who build school and educate people, bring peace safty, build strong economy, strong miltary, try to get more invester, and give deriction to security food suply and build more hospital or health care services, now you see who is the traitor and who is the Khmer compatriat, don't you see? thank you for let me know that most believer in SRP are people who have no vission and never responsible anythings they do, and you are one of them. don't you?. sorry for any gentlemen who read this article

Anonymous said...

12:38PM You stupid comments is in the wrong column mother fuckers. Ah sucker Youn CPP no one wants to read your useless article in here. The hole world already knew ah CHHKAE CPP regimes is slaving to the Vietcong Killers.

Anonymous said...

sam rainsy is exploiting ignorance in people. everybody get education so people like sam rainsy cannot exploit or trick you, ok! in politics, they say anything to arouse nationalism, etc. please use logic and think for ourselves before we buy into political rhetorics, etc. if we see and observe to be true like sam rainsy is saying, then it is logic to demand gov't responsibility and accountability, etc, however, keep in mind to trust but always verify, too, ok!

Anonymous said...

To all the party supporters.

What you did here, you only destroyed your own political philosophies, structure and foundation.