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Posted 2010-03-13 00:24:57
 wharfdaddy, on 2010-03-13 00:06:52, said:
I love Bangkok in the late winter especially during demonstration season. The distinct aroma of the Gestapo (brown shirts) is about as people everywhere draw lines and take sides. It's all good by me. Easy to ride my Bicycle around Bangkok for a change. It's really sad though. Too bad that the best deal that the Issan people can get is from a guy like Thaksin. Yellow shirts just want a steady supply of debt slaves to polish their Mercedes, their gemstones and their marble floors. Yellow shirts want a steady supply of untermenchen whores so that they can rip off the tourists who come here to experience "ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK". The yellow shirts regard the red shirts as something akin to animals to be used up washing yellow shirt underwear, building yellow shirt sky rises, and maybe serving as a Mia Noi for a few good years before tossing her back to the rice fields from where she came. I watched Thaksin improve the lives of the Issan people bit by bit year by year. For those of you who don't know, it is the Issan people who put the SMILE in "THE LAND OF SMILES". Thaksin got them out of usurious interest rate debt enforced by corrupt (yellow shirt) money lenders. He paved their roads and improved infrastructure in those impoverished Issan villages. Ask a few yellow shirts if they have ever even been to Issan and they'll laugh at you with disdain as if Issan is not really even a part of Thailand. Certainly, Issan people are not real "Thai" people in yellow shirt eyes. You have no idea the material improvement that Thaksin orchestrated in these hard working peoples lives. Thaksin got a health care scheme that gave people real access to actual affordable medical care. Guess what? People who had been previously dying from easily treatable conditions got to go to a doctor, see a surgeon, be hospitalized and treated instead of abandoned. Let me tell you something Mister, You save someones life and or get them out of lifelong debt to a yellow shirt loan shark you'll really impress them. They will vote for you over and over again no matter how corrupt you might be otherwise. Is Thaksin SHREWD, dishonest, corrupt? You betcha! Is he any worse than ALL the others? At this point, I think NOT!
Good post wharfdaddy, and more importantly it's all true  The yellow shirted Thai-chinese elite see themselves as the real Thais, when in fact the real Thais are the those in Issan and the outlying provinces who are the backbone of this country! Thai history shows us that when the folks in Issan and the northern provinces have had enough they will rise up and take their country back, in the spirit of Ya Mo and Taksin the great  We are seeing the beginings of this movement this weekend in Bangkok, the people will be heard despite the gestopo tactics of Abhisit 
Posted 2010-03-13 00:54:16
He's one hel_l of a crazy stuoid dude who will stoop at nothing to swindle as much money as he can from the Thai people.
He will get wht he deserves one day, or at least I hope he does.
Posted 2010-03-13 01:03:19
VegasVic, on 2010-03-13 01:24:57, said: Good post wharfdaddy, and more importantly it's all true :) The yellow shirted Thai-chinese elite see themselves as the real Thais, when in fact the real Thais are the those in Issan and the outlying provinces who are the backbone of this country! Thai history shows us that when the folks in Issan and the northern provinces have had enough they will rise up and take their country back, in the spirit of Ya Mo and Taksin the great :D We are seeing the beginings of this movement this weekend in Bangkok, the people will be heard despite the gestopo tactics of Abhisit :o
of course the isaan people should be respected too, but bringing class and race/nationality this way into the debate sounds not so good neither.
Posted 2010-03-13 02:00:33
The guy isn't stupid, he know's how to do business & has learnt from the trick's pulled on him by the military. To be close at hand places increased pressure on the government & nervy generals, I hope all concearned realise an election with an amnesty for him (however hard to swollow) will stop the self destruct button being pushed!
Posted 2010-03-13 02:04:30
One post removed. Don't waste your energy typing posts if you are going to substitute people's names with derogatory nicknames as they will be summarily deleted.
Posted 2010-03-13 02:05:51
Most of us know better that shit in our own backyards.
Posted 2010-03-13 03:06:31
wharfdaddy, on 2010-03-13 00:06:52, said: I love Bangkok in the late winter especially during demonstration season. The distinct aroma of the Gestapo (brown shirts) is about as people everywhere draw lines and take sides. It's all good by me. Easy to ride my Bicycle around Bangkok for a change. It's really sad though. Too bad that the best deal that the Issan people can get is from a guy like Thaksin. Yellow shirts just want a steady supply of debt slaves to polish their Mercedes, their gemstones and their marble floors. Yellow shirts want a steady supply of untermenchen whores so that they can rip off the tourists who come here to experience "ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK". The yellow shirts regard the red shirts as something akin to animals to be used up washing yellow shirt underwear, building yellow shirt sky rises, and maybe serving as a Mia Noi for a few good years before tossing her back to the rice fields from where she came. I watched Thaksin improve the lives of the Issan people bit by bit year by year. For those of you who don't know, it is the Issan people who put the SMILE in "THE LAND OF SMILES". Thaksin got them out of usurious interest rate debt enforced by corrupt (yellow shirt) money lenders. He paved their roads and improved infrastructure in those impoverished Issan villages. Ask a few yellow shirts if they have ever even been to Issan and they'll laugh at you with disdain as if Issan is not really even a part of Thailand. Certainly, Issan people are not real "Thai" people in yellow shirt eyes. You have no idea the material improvement that Thaksin orchestrated in these hard working peoples lives. Thaksin got a health care scheme that gave people real access to actual affordable medical care. Guess what? People who had been previously dying from easily treatable conditions got to go to a doctor, see a surgeon, be hospitalized and treated instead of abandoned. Let me tell you something Mister, You save someones life and or get them out of lifelong debt to a yellow shirt loan shark you'll really impress them. They will vote for you over and over again no matter how corrupt you might be otherwise. Is Thaksin SHREWD, dishonest, corrupt? You betcha! Is he any worse than ALL the others? At this point, I think NOT!
hmmm utter nonsense, what proof do you have that the evil yellow shirts were praying on the poor as loan sharks, and no one forced these people to take out loans with crazy intrest rates.....if your not smart enough to realize that its not possible for you to repay a loan with high intrest rate, or to bother figuring out how much that loan is going to cost you over the term you deserve to be poor. Stupid people are stupid people the world around.
hel_l id like a 10 million usd loan, but i know i dont make enough to pay it back,
Posted 2010-03-13 03:47:06
wharfdaddy, on 2010-03-13 01:06:52, said: I love Bangkok in the late winter especially during demonstration season. The distinct aroma of the Gestapo (brown shirts) is about as people everywhere draw lines and take sides. It's all good by me. Easy to ride my Bicycle around Bangkok for a change. It's really sad though. Too bad that the best deal that the Issan people can get is from a guy like Thaksin. Yellow shirts just want a steady supply of debt slaves to polish their Mercedes, their gemstones and their marble floors. Yellow shirts want a steady supply of untermenchen whores so that they can rip off the tourists who come here to experience "ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK". The yellow shirts regard the red shirts as something akin to animals to be used up washing yellow shirt underwear, building yellow shirt sky rises, and maybe serving as a Mia Noi for a few good years before tossing her back to the rice fields from where she came. I watched Thaksin improve the lives of the Issan people bit by bit year by year. For those of you who don't know, it is the Issan people who put the SMILE in "THE LAND OF SMILES". Thaksin got them out of usurious interest rate debt enforced by corrupt (yellow shirt) money lenders. He paved their roads and improved infrastructure in those impoverished Issan villages. Ask a few yellow shirts if they have ever even been to Issan and they'll laugh at you with disdain as if Issan is not really even a part of Thailand. Certainly, Issan people are not real "Thai" people in yellow shirt eyes. You have no idea the material improvement that Thaksin orchestrated in these hard working peoples lives. Thaksin got a health care scheme that gave people real access to actual affordable medical care. Guess what? People who had been previously dying from easily treatable conditions got to go to a doctor, see a surgeon, be hospitalized and treated instead of abandoned. Let me tell you something Mister, You save someones life and or get them out of lifelong debt to a yellow shirt loan shark you'll really impress them. They will vote for you over and over again no matter how corrupt you might be otherwise. Is Thaksin SHREWD, dishonest, corrupt? You betcha! Is he any worse than ALL the others? At this point, I think NOT!
Any pseudo analysis that tries to present Thaksin as anyone who isn't out for himself, his family, chauffer, housemaids, tribal political cronies and corporate co-conspiritors is completely off the mark. Thaksin is worse than ALL the others because he's such an egomaniac and has an insatiable compulsion for wealth and power that ALL the others wouldn't and couldn't ever imagine or conceive of.
Thaksin's time as prime miscreant far exceeds the sins or evils of other criminal PMs. Moreover, while other deposed or convicted leaders have picked themselves up, dusted themselves off and got on with their lives, Thaksin is obsessed and driven to have his personal way come the flames of hel_l or the destruction of all that is Thailand no matter what the consequence.
In what country has there been a deposed figure so monomaniacial or cynically determined as is Thaksin? In which country has there ever been a booted out PM or president who has wreaked such turmoil and havoc on it as he has? Thaksin is conspiritorial, he's scheming; Thaksin is possessed by himself and sees the country as his personal possession and property regardless of any other considerations or realities.
Anyone who can't imagine Thaksin back in power is perhaps as dangerous as Thaksin himself.
Posted 2010-03-13 04:20:58
Squigy, on 2010-03-12 19:33:29, said: Why didn't he use the Thai Government balloon...
it can only carry 4 packets of crisps
Posted 2010-03-13 04:30:37
Sunderland, on 2010-03-12 23:06:04, said: tonglen, on 2010-03-12 21:30:04, said: The fact that Thaksin is flying on his private jet whilst his supporters can hardly feed their families is not only akin, but in lock-step with the financial defrauders of the west. The Wall Street traders are collusory, or better, responsible for the disintegration of the economy, and so what do the banks do for them? Why, give them millions of dollars in bonuses for their "troubles" while the rest of America pays for it.
My point: Dont Thaksins supporters see the embedded hypocrisy? I dont blame them for wanting a better life for their families, but theyve chosen the wrong mascot for this game.
I agree with that point to a certain extent, but doubtless that any former leader would travel such a distance on foot or by tractor. As far as I am aware there are no direct flights between the Middle East and Cambodia, Vietnam or Laos. Obviously he can't fly via Thailand with a conviction hanging over his head, so it is completely understandable that he would use a private jet.
I don't support the reds or yellows, but I can understand why many of them feel a sense of loyalty towards Thaksin. For better or worse he did give many of them hope. The red shirt supporters are not as daft as many people would have you believe. Many of them are just as educated as the rest of the population. They are wise enough to know that whoever in charge of the government is corrupt to a certain degree, and the fact that Thaksin abused his position is little different from the norm, but at least they felt that he was giving something back to the north and north-east.
All that said, I still believe that Thailand needs a completely new set of fresh faces in politics and the population has to work together towards a true democracy and complete fairness at the ballot boxes. It's not going to happen very soon. But if and when the middle class
becomes a majority, we may finally see changes. For the foreseeable future there will continue to be vote buying, rainbow coalitions and street protests. Events could very well turn for the worse when an unmentionable death finally occurs and there is a vast vacuum of power and wealth to be fought over. What we are seeing now is possibly only the supporting event to the main event in the not too distant future.
Actually there are many direct flights from Dubai to both Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, but I see your point.
Im not saying he should take a songtaew or hoof it.
And Im not saying I wouldnt take a private jet - I would if I were Thaksin, if Im being honest. Then again, I wouldnt be Thaksin.
What I was trying to say was that it doesnt look "right." It looks dirty and shady, especially since he's not even HERE.
But then again, he holds mass appeal; that cannot be denied. Also, he has helped many and hurt many people, so he is LOVED and HATED by many people. Is it any different with any other politicians approval ratings? No.
You can please some of the people all of the time.
You can please all of the people some of the time.
You cannot please all of the people all of the time.
Posted 2010-03-13 06:31:49
Starting a few months ago, in emails and in Posts in Thai Visa, I forecast that if Thaksin were to reenter Thailand it would be at a base of operations on KoChang.
now, how would I know that????????
Posted 2010-03-13 06:32:51
When the reds gather again on Sunday, who are they going to protest to? Sunday, most businesses and all government offices are closed. However, after a full night of drinking, Monday morning could get ugly.
Posted 2010-03-13 07:02:46
tb86, on 2010-03-13 04:06:31, said: wharfdaddy, on 2010-03-13 00:06:52, said: I love Bangkok in the late winter especially during demonstration season. The distinct aroma of the Gestapo (brown shirts) is about as people everywhere draw lines and take sides. It's all good by me. Easy to ride my Bicycle around Bangkok for a change. It's really sad though. Too bad that the best deal that the Issan people can get is from a guy like Thaksin. Yellow shirts just want a steady supply of debt slaves to polish their Mercedes, their gemstones and their marble floors. Yellow shirts want a steady supply of untermenchen whores so that they can rip off the tourists who come here to experience "ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK". The yellow shirts regard the red shirts as something akin to animals to be used up washing yellow shirt underwear, building yellow shirt sky rises, and maybe serving as a Mia Noi for a few good years before tossing her back to the rice fields from where she came. I watched Thaksin improve the lives of the Issan people bit by bit year by year. For those of you who don't know, it is the Issan people who put the SMILE in "THE LAND OF SMILES". Thaksin got them out of usurious interest rate debt enforced by corrupt (yellow shirt) money lenders. He paved their roads and improved infrastructure in those impoverished Issan villages. Ask a few yellow shirts if they have ever even been to Issan and they'll laugh at you with disdain as if Issan is not really even a part of Thailand. Certainly, Issan people are not real "Thai" people in yellow shirt eyes. You have no idea the material improvement that Thaksin orchestrated in these hard working peoples lives. Thaksin got a health care scheme that gave people real access to actual affordable medical care. Guess what? People who had been previously dying from easily treatable conditions got to go to a doctor, see a surgeon, be hospitalized and treated instead of abandoned. Let me tell you something Mister, You save someones life and or get them out of lifelong debt to a yellow shirt loan shark you'll really impress them. They will vote for you over and over again no matter how corrupt you might be otherwise. Is Thaksin SHREWD, dishonest, corrupt? You betcha! Is he any worse than ALL the others? At this point, I think NOT!
hmmm utter nonsense, what proof do you have that the evil yellow shirts were praying on the poor as loan sharks, and no one forced these people to take out loans with crazy intrest rates.....if your not smart enough to realize that its not possible for you to repay a loan with high intrest rate, or to bother figuring out how much that loan is going to cost you over the term you deserve to be poor. Stupid people are stupid people the world around.
hel_l id like a 10 million usd loan, but i know i dont make enough to pay it back,
I agree, utter nonsense! Go to Chiang Mai and see who the money collectors are (not the guys that collect it, but the ones who give out the 20% interest per month loans. I know a couple of them, who sport their "Truth Today", red shirts. (Watgate, trainstation area), maybe some of you know them ;-)
As for the 30 Baht medical scheme, that was a Democrat baby, taken over by Thaksin. He didn't come up with it. (Some of the programs have even been improved by the Democrats, since they came back into power)
Khun Chamlong (one of the "yellow shirt" main leaders), did lots for the poor and against corruption, when he was Governor of Bangkok.
It's easy to spout of Thaksin rhetoric...maybe next time check your facts first. Thaksin threw the poor a few crumbs, to help him get re-elected. Any right wing dictator, with some brains will do that. Hitler did more for the poor of his country, than Thaksin ever will and in my eyes, both of them turned out to be monsters.
Posted 2010-03-13 07:05:19
britmaveric, on 2010-03-12 21:47:38, said: Jingthing, on 2010-03-12 21:13:34, said: He fantasizes that he will be welcomed back with a big parade.
Earth to Thaksin -- Thailand is just not that into you!
actually thailand loves khun T 
Actually some in Thailand do love him. Yes, people get paid to rallies but this is the norm. Poor people must be reimbursed as they couldn't afford to travel and spend time on political activities; that doesn't mean that they don't have preferences as to who should be in government.
The country is genuinely split in their political alliances. Of course Thaksin mines this for his own purposes just like the other side use the Bangkok elite to stop him.It's a power struggle which must be brought to a conclusion before the country can move on.Hopefully this wekend will bring a definitive end to it although I doubt it. The best two scenarios would be either for the red shirts unable to bring out significant numbers and therefore fail or that they topple the government and elections are held. A mexican stand off is the worst scenario as things fester on. If Thaksin had the guts he'd land in his private jet in Chiang Mai and lead a movement himself , maybe even set up an alternate government in the former Lanna kingdom. He could even claim that it's his legitemate government which was overtaken by a coup when he was out of the country. If he did that all decision by this government and the legal cases against him could be claimed by him as invalid .
Obviously he would be accused as inticing a civil war but these things were negotiated before by the highest authority in the Kingdom.
Trying to manipulate things from afar is not going help Thaksin after this weekend, this is the last throw of the dice. In poker parlance it's all in, gambling everything on the "river".
Posted 2010-03-13 07:24:44
macwalen, on 2010-03-12 20:33:35, said: Obviously those who stay at home are afraid of violence! If demonstrators see that just walking around the town in the sun does not produce any results and the government is not concerned then some of the bad guys will get the idea to perhaps liven up things a bit and like last time to throw some petrol bombs, some grenades, some excrement that is men mak mak because is not hom.
I do not believe anybody believes that paid protestors will make a great change. In my opinion there will be violence. I really hope that I am wrong but history likes to repeat itself. It is hard to control such huge masses of people.
Peace, peace, peace.
What huge masses of people..... there are many more at a Celtic v Rangers match and that can be real crowd trouble.... Bring in the horses..!!
Posted 2010-03-13 07:26:26
THAKSIN, WHERE'RE YOU?
Govt believes Thaksin is in Cambodia
By The Nation
BANGKOK: -- Government officials and their opponents yesterday released contradictory information on former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's whereabouts, with the former saying he had left Dubai for Cambodia and the latter claiming he was still in the emirate.
Chavanond Intarakomalyasut, secretary to Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya, first floated news that Thaksin had landed by private jet in Siem Reap in the morning.
The Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh was verifying the information and would report back to the ministry about Thaksin's activities in Cambodia, he said.
Vice Foreign Minister Panich Vikitsreth said he had learnt that following a Thai request, Dubai had asked Thaksin to leave as the United Arab Emirates did not want him to use the country as a launching PAD for attacks against the Thai government.
"He might travel to the country he is familiar with and where he has a close association with its leaders," he said, without naming the destination.
There were no reports from Cambodia on whether Thaksin had arrived in the country.
Acting Government Spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn said the ex-premier had travelled from one country to another, but there was no clear information on his current whereabouts.
The locations of Thaksin and his family are a matter of particularly close interest for the government at this time.
The anti-government red-shirt movement called for a huge protest yesterday, which hundreds of thousands people are expected to join in Bangkok over the weekend.
Former foreign minister Noppadon Pattama, who is now a legal adviser to Thaksin, rejected the government's information about his whereabouts, saying he was still in Dubai and planned to see his daughters somewhere in Europe in the next few days.
"For sure, he would not travel to Cambodia during this period when the red-shirted group is holding the protest," he said.
The authorities in Dubai have not forced Thaksin to leave as Kasit is trying to suggest, he added.
"Location is not a big deal for Thaksin, as he can phone in to support the red-shirt protesters from any corner of the globe," Noppadon said.
Thaksin has not yet reunited with his family, as his ex-wife Pojaman na Pombejra is still in Hong Kong and their daughters Pinthongtha and Paetongtarn are in Germany, according to Noppadon.
Thaksin's youngest sister Yinglak Shinawatra had left Thailand for an undisclosed country to seek a school for her child, he added.
Red-shirt leader Jatuporn Promphan said the movement had no problem with Thaksin's family leaving the country during the protest.
"It's good, as the government will not be able to bother them," he said.
-- The Nation 2010-03-13
Posted 2010-03-13 07:33:28
Of circumstance...
DEAD KENNEDYS: Holiday in Cambodia
And lyrics are -still- accurate !
Posted 2010-03-13 07:34:12
Publicus, on 2010-03-12 23:40:39, said: Sunderland, on 2010-03-13 00:06:04, said: tonglen, on 2010-03-12 21:30:04, said: The fact that Thaksin is flying on his private jet whilst his supporters can hardly feed their families is not only akin, but in lock-step with the financial defrauders of the west. The Wall Street traders are collusory, or better, responsible for the disintegration of the economy, and so what do the banks do for them? Why, give them millions of dollars in bonuses for their "troubles" while the rest of America pays for it.
My point: Dont Thaksins supporters see the embedded hypocrisy? I dont blame them for wanting a better life for their families, but theyve chosen the wrong mascot for this game.
<<snip>>
All that said, I still believe that Thailand needs a completely new set of fresh faces in politics and the population has to work together towards a true democracy and complete fairness at the ballot boxes. It's not going to happen very soon. But if and when the middle class
becomes a majority, we may finally see changes. For the foreseeable future there will continue to be vote buying, rainbow coalitions and street protests. Events could very well turn for the worse when an unmentionable death finally occurs and there is a vast vacuum of power and wealth to be fought over. What we are seeing now is possibly only the supporting event to the main event in the not too distant future.
It's difficult to imagine Thailand without vote buying and corruption everywhere. The Bangkok middle class rejects Thaksin and his paucity of middle class values and thereby does provide some reason to hope for a better quality of leadership at some point in the future, but it's still difficult to imagine that the culture, society and civilization can produce a transformational leader. Abhisit is a Thai who is a product of Oxbridge and its prep school system which in the UK and for other countries shapes and molds reasonably responsible and visionary leaders, but Abhisit himself is at best a shaky promise of the present (who with Korn and a few others are still the best presently or forseeably on offer).
After the anticipated passing occurs, the tradition institution and its forces will need to struggle in unprecedented ways to continue to survive. There's just not much promise in the past 100 years or in the present that Thai culture, society or civilization can produce leaders of the required quality that can produce a peaceful or reasonable resolution to a country so divided that the traditional institution no longer can act as a definitively unifying force, and in which the insurgent rural dispossed elements can successfully get their piece of the pie.
Everyone in the country is still out for their interests and theirs only. They've never been able to see an inch beyond that, and continue to show no signs of doing so presently or in the crutial immediate future. The education system, the family system, the massive corruption endemic to the police force, referred to by the New York Times as the "largest criminal organization in Thailand", the self-rightous military, the clown class of political leaders and the ethically challenged business and corporate class leave litte to hope for. Sorry to be so grim in the assessment of the situation, but the evidence of the past century and of the first decade of this one simply don't offer much promise when promise imperatively needs now to become reality.
Well said, and well put into words something we all know... But things are slowly changing.. and everything takes time... Greed is a monster..!
Posted 2010-03-13 08:08:44
webfact, on 2010-03-13 07:26:26, said: BANGKOK: -- Government officials and their opponents yesterday released contradictory information on former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's whereabouts, with the former saying he had left Dubai for Cambodia and the latter claiming he was still in the emirate.
-- The Nation 2010-03-13
Typical shoddy reporting...the way The Nation jumps to conclusions all the time I'm surprised they are still open......
Posted 2010-03-13 08:29:45
mrtoad, on 2010-03-12 21:40:58, said: personchester, on 2010-03-12 21:30:10, said: Perhaps he is looking forward to having the opportunity to enter Thailand in the same way as the then Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who entered Baghdad during the Iranian peoples massive streets protests and was received with such wild enthusiasm that it resulted in a total revolution which gave the Ayatollah total political power.
I don't ever remember Ayatollah Khomeini ever being welcomed into the streets of Baghdad.  Did I miss something?
As for what you have said though, it is a possibility that The Fugitive may try to cross the border and try to further incite and gather more supporters. So far though, the criminal has shown far too much cowardice to suggest he would actually try to do such a thing - unless the game had already been decided.
Yes, You certainly have, Ayatollah Khamenei (not unlike Thaksin) initiated and organised the Iranian steet protests from his exile in Paris (France) for some time, and when the mass protests reached the required point he left Paris (by air) and entered Baghdad where he was welcomed by a jubiland mass of supporters, as a result the Shah had to leave the country and the Ayatollah acquired total power.
The above mentioned Baghdad street scenes were shown repeatedly on international media, (TV channels and press) at the time, and Thaksin will certainly be well aware of it, and is no doubt hoping that he gets a similar opportunity whilst being in Cambodia during the current red shirts street protests with his private jet on stand by.
Posted 2010-03-13 08:31:27
This is from Thaksin's Twitter page posted seven hours ago:
มีข่าวว่าผมถูกขับออกจากUAEไปอยู่ที่เสียมเรียบ ขอโทษทีไม่จริงนะครับผมยังอยู่ท่ีดูไบพรุ่งนี้จะเดินทางไปยุโรปพบกับลูกสาวทั้งสองคนซึ่งดูงานเสร็จ
He is saying that reports of him being forced out of UAE and going to Siem Reap are false and that he will be travelling to Europe tomorrow, apparently Germany from a previous posting. If that's the case, and all this blows up, I wonder what Germany and the EU will have to say about his presence there?
Posted 2010-03-13 08:34:11
This thread started on the 12th, with a positive view that Thaksin really has left Dubai for Cambodia. But this morning (13th) the newspapers are placing a question mark against the matter and no breaking news is changing that. Thaksin's legal advisor says it's not true. So what is the basis for this significant statement of fact?
P&M
Posted 2010-03-13 08:34:36
Thaksin denies having been expelled from UAE
DUBAI: -- Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra early Saturday denied that he had been expelled from the United Arab Emirates.
He posted messages on his Twitter page at 2 am, saying he was still living in Dubai.
"There were reports that I have been expelled from Dubai. Sorry, it's not true. I am still in Dubai and I'll leave here to see my two daughters," Thaksin said.
His opponents said his family has left the country ahead of expected turbulence by the red-shirt movement over the weekend but Thaksin said his two daughters were simply visiting Europe to observe certain business operations.
-- The Nation 2010-03-13
Posted 2010-03-13 08:40:24
bubba, on 2010-03-13 08:31:27, said: This is from Thaksin's Twitter page posted seven hours ago:
มีข่าวว่าผมถูกขับออกจากUAEไปอยู่ที่เสียมเรียบ ขอโทษทีไม่จริงนะครับผมยังอยู่ท่ีดูไบพรุ่งนี้จะเดินทางไปยุโรปพบกับลูกสาวทั้งสองคนซึ่งดูงานเสร็จ
He is saying that reports of him being forced out of UAE and going to Siem Reap are false and that he will be travelling to Europe tomorrow, apparently Germany from a previous posting. If that's the case, and all this blows up, I wonder what Germany and the EU will have to say about his presence there?
He's been banned from Germany and will be arrested if he tries to enter. I hope he does try, should be interesting to see.
Posted 2010-03-13 08:50:30
I'm sorry for the Thai political situation here but I still love living in Thailand and hope the situration gets better.
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