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Govt to consider all draft amnesty laws

The government will take all amnesty proposals, including the demands of the January 29 group, into consideration, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Tuesday.

She said all of the draft laws proposed to the government would be sent to the Council of State, the government's legal advisory body, and other agencies so they could look into the legal aspects.

Proposals for an amnesty law have been drafted by the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), the independent committee on promotion of the rule of law chaired by former parliament president Ukrit Mongkolnavin, and the Nitirat group of academics.

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    Ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra said the government's amnesty efforts must focus on absolving red shirts facing legal action in connection with the 2010 political violence rather than protest leaders or even himself.

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    Discussion 1 : 29 Jan 2013 at 17.511

    This amnesty will further aggravate the division of thai people, those red-shirts leader who have just been sentence to jail will just be set free? ?// This must be studied carefully and if possible let the people decide about it.

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