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Lawyer Robert Amsterdam is simply "deceiving a billionaire" for the money he can earn by filing a case with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the government under Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva for alleged crimes against humanity during the red-shirt protestin April-May last year, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said on Tuesday.
Mr Amsterdam, of the international law office Amsterdam & Perroff, on Monday said in a video call from Tokyo to a United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) meeting that a 250-page case against the Abhisit government had been filed with the ICC.
Mr Amsterdam said the violence in Bangkok that ended with more than 90 people dead should come under the jurisdiction of the ICC because the Rome Statute covers cases filed against people holding the nationality of a country that is a state party to the ICC.
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Red-shirt supporters have expressed dismay over ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's call for them to set aside their anger and frustration over social and legal injustices for the sake of national reconciliation.
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Discussion 13 : 01/02/2011 at 05:54 PM13
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"He said Mr Amsterdam was not fighting for what was right, but for the money." They should get along just fine...
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Discussion 12 : 01/02/2011 at 05:16 PM12
How a Department of Special Investigation chief can affirm that ''a petition lodged with the ICC must be against a government, not an individual''? Ask to Thomas Lubanga, Germain Katanga,, Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui... This assertion is absolutly wrong and we have just to hope that the others affirmations of this chief are trues more.
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Discussion 11 : 01/02/2011 at 05:16 PM11
D 3 - John Turner - the former Prime Minister of Canada in 1984 - was born in England, and had dual citizenship. He still does. It was a non-issue then and is a non-issue now. By the way, how many countries is Thaksin a citizen of ?
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Discussion 10 : 01/02/2011 at 05:15 PM10
this udd is trying very hard...will they ever give up...sigh
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Discussion 9 : 01/02/2011 at 04:14 PM9
It doesn't matter where Abhisit was born. This case will go nowhere at the ICC.
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Discussion 8 : 01/02/2011 at 04:07 PM8
The case could only be against Abhisit personally and it would be necessary to prove that he personally ordered the military to kill unarmed civilians. A big ask!
Discussion 7 : 01/02/2011 at 04:04 PM7
Suthep Thaugsuban said Mr Amsterdam ''was not fighting for what was right, but for the money''. Mr Amsterdam no have to say what is right, he just asks to the justice to do. And about the money, i'm not sure that his own lawyer(s) works for free.
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Discussion 6 : 01/02/2011 at 03:30 PM6
Suthep: Amsterdam only after the money Truer words were never said.
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Discussion 5 : 01/02/2011 at 03:14 PM5
Maybe he could do it pro bono if he really cares .
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Discussion 4 : 01/02/2011 at 02:57 PM4
Of course, like any lawyer, he's doing it for the money. Anything that Thaksin can throw at Thailand to keep up the pressure to avenge himself for his loss of office, he will. I'm sure the ICC will not welcome the aggravation that this causes them in their initial assessment and investiagtion of the petition, but I believe that in the end it will be throwen out, justifiably.
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