Suthep vows to fight cases in court

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Suthep vows to fight cases in court

Published: 19 Sep 2012 at 15.00
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Former deputy prime minister Suthep Thaugsuban says he will fight any charges which may by filed against him in court, saying he and former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva have been targeted for legal action by some senior figures in the government in connection with their handling of the 2010 riots.

Mr Suthep was responding to Department of Specal Investigation (DSI) chief Tarit Pengdit's comment there was a chance Mr Abhisit and Mr Suthep could be charged with murder after the Criminal Court ruled that a taxi driver was killed by bullets fired by soldiers ordered to the location by the Centre for the Resolution of Emergency Situations (CRES). Mr Suthep, as deputy prime minister, was the director of the centre at the time.

If charges were filed against him, he would report to the authorities to acknowledge them, and would then fight the charges in the courts to finally establish the facts about the riots.

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Discussion 8 : 19 Sep 2012 at 18.198
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"We have declared we will fight to the end, both inside and outside parliament..."

Suthep and AV really need to fight against their charges inside the Criminal Court very soon this time.
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Discussion 7 : 19 Sep 2012 at 18.097
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Never mind, it was a set up, all politically motivated, he has ample excuse to do a runner and go live in exile Dubai and cry for 'justice' but I'm guessing these two guys have a few more balls, and of course are much more confident that they can face the charges in court, rather than having get the whole case suspended using a phoney amnesty bill.
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Discussion 6 : 19 Sep 2012 at 17.136
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The fact is force was used to remove the protestors and the rest is history. We see the same thing happening in many countries with the same results. It's just hard to believe that a simple election could have prevented all this.
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Discussion 5 : 19 Sep 2012 at 16.405
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"We never ordered the soldiers to use force and weapons to break up the protesters. The operation launched on April 10, 2010 was to retake occupied traffic space on Ratchadamnern Avenue."

You didn't. AV didn't. Who gave the orders then? Did Suthep try to stop the killings?

"On May 19, government forces were used to retake Lumpini Park which had been occupied and used as a terrorist base," Mr Suthep said.

Syria's Al Assad is also calling the protestors as 'terrorists', which he thinks gives him the license to kill the innocent people.
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Discussion 4 : 19 Sep 2012 at 16.244
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The truth will always prevail. As for the "whitewash".
The fugitives hands in Dubai are so dirty, he will never be able in his remaining life to clean his hands from
all the corruption and horrible events when he was the PM.
6 years ago on this day he learned a hard lesson.
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Discussion 3 : 19 Sep 2012 at 16.103
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If Suthep and Abhisit were to stand trial, where is Thaksins trial on his "War on Drugs" campaign? the red leaders who said "burn the city down"?
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Discussion 2 : 19 Sep 2012 at 15.542
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More cojones than someone else who is running from the consequences of his wrongdoings.
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Discussion 1 : 19 Sep 2012 at 15.511
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Really ? The problem is that nowadays only you and your supporters agree with your version of the fact Mr Suthep :

"The military is firing live rounds at unarmed people who pose no threat whatsoever to the soldiers or to other. This is a gross violation of a key human right" Amnesty International -18 May 2010.
“Despite well-documented atrocities that took place in the full view of cameras and witnesses, no Thai soldier or official has been held accountable,” Human Right Watch - 15 May 2010
And between that, hundreds of reports who mentioned that non dangerous unarmed protestors were killed in violation of Thai and International Laws.
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