AsianCorrespondent — May 25, 2010 — Red Shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan, reported to the Department of Special Investigation, as Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister confirmed that the nighttime curfew, imposed last week, would remain in place for another four days.
As a member of parliament Jatuporn has political immunity and is exempt from being held under arrest until charged.
"What's hurtful is that 70 to 80 Red Shirt people who passed away were accused of being terrorists even when they didn't have any weapons in their hands," he told a large crowd of supporters and media.
"Today the Thai society has to think carefully who the terrorists are," he added as supporters handed him flowers.
All but one of the top Red Shirt leadership were in custody after the surrender of two more key figures. Still the government warned the movement behind the protests is still a threat.
A Thai court ordered an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on terrorism charges, accusing the fugitive leader of agitating two months of unrest in Bangkok that left 88 people dead. The charges carry a death penalty.
Thaksin is already barred from most European countries but United Arab Emirates authorities have said he could remain as long as he refrained from political activities while on their soil.
At least 88 people, mostly Red Shirts, died in the recent protest-related violence, the worst in Thailand for two decades.
As a member of parliament Jatuporn has political immunity and is exempt from being held under arrest until charged.
"What's hurtful is that 70 to 80 Red Shirt people who passed away were accused of being terrorists even when they didn't have any weapons in their hands," he told a large crowd of supporters and media.
"Today the Thai society has to think carefully who the terrorists are," he added as supporters handed him flowers.
All but one of the top Red Shirt leadership were in custody after the surrender of two more key figures. Still the government warned the movement behind the protests is still a threat.
A Thai court ordered an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on terrorism charges, accusing the fugitive leader of agitating two months of unrest in Bangkok that left 88 people dead. The charges carry a death penalty.
Thaksin is already barred from most European countries but United Arab Emirates authorities have said he could remain as long as he refrained from political activities while on their soil.
At least 88 people, mostly Red Shirts, died in the recent protest-related violence, the worst in Thailand for two decades.
2 comments:
If those Red Shirt were terrorists as they are being accused of; I don't think Bangkok would be in the good shape as is now. They wouldn't need a protest they could just blow up buildings and so on...Without warnings.
The Abhisit government needs to label the red shirt protesters as terrorists in order to demonize them and to get the supports from the Thai people and the international communities. It was the yellow shirts who were the real terrorists because they ransacked the airport and deposed a democratically elected governments of Samak and Wongsawat in 2008 and put Abhisit in government illegally.
Abhisit and the yellow shirts are playing a nationalism game by stoking nationalistic fervor and whipping up anti-Cambodian sentiment among the Thai people like what they have done before Thai troops invaded Preah Vihear in July 2008. Now they wrongly arrested a Cambodian man by accusing him of burning buildings in Bangkok. The Thai media also accused Cambodians, Burmese and Laotians as being the red shirt mercenaries who have infiltrated the red shirt movement. Now I worry that the Thai extremists will beat up or kill every Cambodian, Burmese and Laotian they can find in Thailand and there are a lot of them.
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