Arrest Thaksin! Abhisit asking Obama

[taksinloong]

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/210006/ministry-hatches-scheme-for-thaksin-extradition

Ministry hatches scheme for Thaksin's extradition
Attorney General needs to back request to US

* Published: 7/12/2010 at 12:00 AM
* Newspaper section: News

Thailand is setting the wheels in motion to pounce on Thaksin Shinawatra should he travel to the US to appear next week before a human rights commission.

Thaksin: US trip to give speech confirmed

The Foreign Affairs Ministry says it will seek the help of Washington to extradite the ousted prime minister if he turns up in the US.

Deputy spokesman for foreign affairs Thani Thongpakdi said yesterday it was very possible a request for Thaksin's return would be put to Washington as the two countries have an extradition treaty signed in 1983.

The process has to start with the Office of the Attorney-General which has not yet revealed its position.

"The Foreign Ministry is ready to use diplomatic channels to submit a request for the extradition of former prime minister Thaksin [to the US] once the Office of the Attorney-General signs the request and passes it on to us," Mr Thani said.

Thaksin, who was toppled by a coup in 2006, faces several outstanding charges. He was also convicted and sentenced in his absence to two years in prison by the Supreme Court for conflict of interest in relation to his consent for his then-wife to purchase a large block of land from a government agency.

The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe wrote to Thaksin on Nov23 to invite him to address a forum titled "Thailand: Democracy, Governance and Human Rights" in Washington on Dec 16. The commission asked him in the invitation to give his perspective on the human rights situation in Thailand including freedom of the press and freedom of expression, and the Thai government's efforts to calm the insurgency in the South.

The commission, set up to promote human rights, democracy and military cooperation, is made up of nine members from the Senate, nine from the House of Representatives and one member each from the departments of State, Defence and Commerce.

Mr Thani said the Foreign Affairs Ministry was not worried about the address to be given by Thaksin at the forum because it kept updating both the US government and Congress on the situation in Thailand. Thai ambassador to the US Kittipong na Ranong was also ready to rebut Thaksin if he wrongly criticised Thailand.

Thaksin's adviser, Noppadon Pattama, confirmed the former prime minister would go to the US, saying he would give his perspective on human rights violations in Thailand, especially the military dispersal of the red shirt protests in April and May which resulted in the deaths of 92 people and more than 1,400 being injured.

He would also raise problems of the lack of press freedom in Thailand under the emergency decree.

Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd yesterday shrugged off what Thaksin might say about the dispersal of the protests by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship.

"He can do whatever he wants," Col Sansern said. "He has the right to give his account of events. But we have been confident all along that there were no human rights violations. Most people here and other countries know that.

"The clashes at the rally were due to the fact that the protest went beyond the law and authorities were bound by the law to carry out their duty, which did not violate human rights."

Human rights defenders in Thailand questioned the US commission's motives.

Angkhana Neelapaijit, chairwoman of the Working Group on Justice and Peace, said the commission should invite local human rights defenders, government agents involved and victims of human rights violations to take part in the forum to counter Thaksin's statement to provide fair and balanced information.

Thaksin has been accused of ordering the drugs war in 2003 in which over 2,600 drugs suspects were killed, and of overseeing the escalation of violence in the deep South since 2004 that has claimed about 4,000 lives.

Somboon Ahmad Bualuang, a former member of the now-dissolved National Reconciliation Commission for the South, said Thaksin would use the forum to defend himself against all allegations that involve violence and human rights situations in Thailand.

"Let him go if he wants to speak," Mr Somboon said. "Everyone knows what type of person he is. He can't escape the truth."

 

[tonychat]

I just love it when Thailand stand by HUMAN RIGHTS, that sinkies is so foreign about it. It is like a new vocab to a sinkie.

 

[democracy my butt]

I just love it when Thailand stand by HUMAN RIGHTS, that sinkies is so foreign about it. It is like a new vocab to a sinkie.

HUMAN WRONG!

Sad that Asians start to eat this Ang Moh shit. Along with Peace & Democracy these are the rubbish that caused entire civilization to perish.

These idiots had treated themselves too well calling that HUMAN, when they totally DON'T deserve, and that they contributed too little while taking too much from the planet alike PAP ministers.

While PAP are too greedy for money, these stupid Ang Moh are too greedy for lives and benefits both they are so undeserving. The end result after all these centuries is a HUGE DEFICIT not just in terms of money but Environmental Damages and Depletion of Vital Resources, plus a Enormous Global Population that will never find enough resources to live on this planet.

How stupid! & calling themselves the most intelligence creature on earth! Pigs & Ants did not fuck the planet but the SMART ASS Humans (especially Ang Mohs) did it! Now the whole planet is fucked, the Ang Mohs want to migrate to another star to fuck another star in this universe.:oIo:

There is no Human Rights only HUMAN WRONGS, and therefore they must all die. God is great!

 

[eErotica69]

I just love it when Thailand stand by HUMAN RIGHTS, that sinkies is so foreign about it. It is like a new vocab to a sinkie.

Thailand? See article below

 

[eErotica69]

I just love it when Thailand stand by HUMAN RIGHTS, that sinkies is so foreign about it. It is like a new vocab to a sinkie.

This article is also in today's Bangkok Post!! Tonychat, either you do selective reading or you are a retard.

Panel claims red shirt inmates tortured

Investigators find that not all suspects are being treated the same
Published: 7/12/2010 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/210009/panel-claims-red-shirt-inmates-tortured

Red shirt detainees are being tortured, forced to confess to crimes and jailed without any chance to defend themselves, a damning report reveals.


Prayuth Moolsan, a red shirt leaderwho was responsible for four northeastern provinces, waits on his hospital bed for cancer treatment.He has been accused of razingaprovincial hall during theMayriots andwill find out today whether charges against him will proceed.

The National Human Rights Commission subcommittee on civil and political rights concluded its study into the red shirt detentions in June but its findings were not made public until last week.

The study found the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation had detained 422 people for violating the emergency decree.

Many of them are believed to have been bystanders. About a dozen were aged over 60 years, some were suffering from health problems and others were young students.

The detainees had little access to relatives or lawyers. At least five uneducated and poor protesters were arrested in Chiang Mai and sentenced to 20 years in prison without access to a proper defence, the NHRC subcommittee said.

The report revealed the red shirt detainees had experienced torture and forced confession, arrest without proper investigation and strong evidence, arbitrary detention, and overcrowded detention facilities.

The government-appointed Truth for Reconciliation Commission (TRC) earlier told the Abhisit Vejjajiva government that the release of the red shirt detainees would go a long way to assisting national reconciliation. The proposal was in line with Section 39 of the constitution which stipulates that a criminal suspect should be presumed innocent and not be treated as a convict.

The TRC said in a petition to the government on Nov 15 that there had been excessive charges and arbitrary arrests of those not involved in violent activities. Some suspects had received improper treatment.

The process by the Justice Ministry to secure the temporary release of some of the detainees had also been painfully slow.

Many detained red shirt activists also complain that their plight has been ignored by the pro-Thaksin Puea Thai Party and by pro-reconciliation bodies.

Grass-root supporters said Puea Thai was focusing mainly on high-profile cases against the red shirt core leaders in Bangkok. Also, big-name leaders such as Darunee Kritbunyalai and Jaran Ditapichai, who are still on the run, were not suffering the same hardship as rank-and-file red shirts.

Prayuth Moolsan, a former primary school teacher from Ubon Ratchathani, said there was more talk than action about national reconciliation. This was the case even though the TRC and the NHRC had called for the release of arrested red shirts as a way to heal the rift.

Mr Prayuth, once a red shirt leader responsible for four provinces in the lower Northeast, is due to appear before the provincial prosecutor in Ubon Ratchathani today to find out whether charges against him will proceed. If they do, he will have to apply for bail a second time.

He won his initial freedom from detention with the help of several social activists and the Puea Thai Party, which put up 200,000 baht in bail, after he was arrested for his alleged involvement in the razing of a provincial hall during a red shirt riot earlier this year.

"They said if I requested bail a second time, the bail money could be increased to 700,000 baht. How can I find so much money?" he asked.

The 55-year-old Don Mot Daeng district resident said he shouldered a heavy financial burden as a result of painful chemotherapy to treat his cancer. This was costing him more than 10,000 baht a month.

Most of the red shirt supporters have not received such financial assistance from the pro-Thaksin party for different reasons. One excuse given is that the huge number of red shirts arrested by the government is beyond the capacity of Puea Thai to handle.

Luen Srisupho, a 46-year-old land rights activist from Sakon Nakhon, said he could not attend a parents' board meeting at Thanpuying Jantima Primary School in Phu Phan district where his children are studying because he was a fugitive from the state.

Mr Luen is wanted for defying the state-imposed emergency decree in Sakon Nakhon earlier this year.

"I was born a poor farmer, the same as my kids," said Mr Luen by telephone from an unspecified location.

"I just want to leave the most precious inheritance for them. That is education. [As a fugitive] now I'm not sure if I can do that."

Both Mr Prayuth and Mr Luen asked the government and society to be more sympathetic and tolerant with the several hundred other red shirts still behind bars.

"I face seven to eight charges," Mr Prayuth said. "But there are about 60others who have not been granted bail. About 20 others are on the run as they fear injustice under the climate of fear as a result of the security laws and other measures."

He claimed the arson at Ubon Ratchathani was not the work of the red shirts alone.

"We saw flames flickering on the second floor," he said. "Somebody was already there to set fire to it and then put the blame on us.

"It's common knowledge that certain businessmen and officials have long desired to get a modern provincial hall."