Chuan urges Thaksin to pay victims
- Published: 6/02/2012 at 09:35 PM
- Online news: Local News
Thaksin Shinawatra rather than the people should pay for the government's 7.5 million baht compensation package for each victim of the 2010 political unrest, Democrat chief adviser Chuan Leekpai said on Monday.
Mr Chuan said the compensation proposal had encouraged provincial Islamic committees in five southern border provinces to demand the same amount of money be paid to the families of people killed in insurgent attacks and other incidents since 2004.
He said the government must separate the victims of the two incidents – the violent street protests in Bangkok and the Muslim insurgency in the far south – because the latter was caused by the government’s mishandling of the southern situation ever since the Thaksin administration took office in 2001.
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