Red, yellow shirts agree on amnesty

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Arch-enemies reach deal on amnesty

Core UDD and PAD leaders pitch two bills

Published: 9 Feb 2013 at 01.11
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Members of the red- and yellow-shirt political camps have reached an agreement to press ahead with a pair of political amnesty bills.

Pheu Thai Party list MP and red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) core leader Korkaew Pikulthong, and Parnthep Pourpongpan, a core member and spokesman for the yellow-shirt People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) met at parliament on Thursday at the invitation of deputy House speaker Charoen Chankomol.

The meeting was revealed Friday by the two leaders of the rival colour-coded groups.

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jgriff
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Discussion 60 : 09 Feb 2013 at 22.2760
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What do you get when your kids never have Consequences to pay for behaving badly? You get bad kids that will do it over and over again.
Sounds like Thailand to me.
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Discussion 59 : 09 Feb 2013 at 20.3859
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D57 bnglishbob

You forgot one: Being killed by army snipers UDD 92, PAD 0

As for what laws were broken by the PAD taking over the airports, try terrorism for starters. If they did this in any other country in the world, they would be immediately arrested. If you or I got a mob together and tried to take over Suvarnabhumi or Don Muang then we would be stopped and arrested immediately. Double standards indeed.
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Discussion 58 : 09 Feb 2013 at 20.0558
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Khun Peteri #49, it is either PAD's law, UDD's law, Prachatipad's law, or Thaksin's law which set the whole constitutional crisis in motion. So, I suppose "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
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Discussion 57 : 09 Feb 2013 at 19.3357
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Disc49 Peterl "The PAD ...... broke the law at least as much as their political opponents in the latter's subsequent protests against Abhisit's government."

'At least as much'? Perhaps you weren't keeping score.
Buildings burnt - UDD 39, PAD, 0
Soldiers killed - UDD 15, PAD, 0
Hospitals raided - UDD 1, PAD, 0
Grenade attacks - UDD 80+, PAD, 0
Armed wing - UDD 1, PAD, 0

Tell me, exactly what law did they break at the airport? Going to the airport with too many friends? It's a public building. You couldn't even charge them for trespassing.
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Discussion 56 : 09 Feb 2013 at 19.2356
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Finally people are starting to talk, who cares if their is an amnesty or not, firstly we need both parties to apologise to the general public in a session in Parliament. Both parties to abmit their wrong dealings of airport and Bangkok protests and say "Sorry". If they can admit that they and their supporters were wrong, then we can moved forwarded. But then again Elton John did sing "Sorry seems to be the hardest word".
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Discussion 55 : 09 Feb 2013 at 18.5655
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"there is a 10 years statute of limitation on his conviction" That's a new one on me. I'd never heard of a statue of limitations on a conviction before.
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Discussion 54 : 09 Feb 2013 at 18.5054
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Sheesh! Thais!

There will never be a Thai Nelson Mandela or Aung San Suu Kyi because there's not a single one of them prepared to stand behind a principle if it means they spend a day in jail.

Spineless, gutless and cowardly. Self-serving, obsequious and utterly without a moral compass between the whole 65 million of them.
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Discussion 53 : 09 Feb 2013 at 18.2453
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Once again, anyone notice that there are two Yingluck stories on this website today, and comments are not open on either of them?
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Discussion 52 : 09 Feb 2013 at 18.0552
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So can anyone say what will happen if TS is allowed to come home with amnesty other than a possible end to the mess the country has been through since 2006. It just seems things will never improve until he is allowed to return. In fact this may be what the majority wishes anyway.
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Discussion 51 : 09 Feb 2013 at 18.0151
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D37 : I don't know if you actually want to be seen as un-informed or if you just never check the validity of the things you write,before posting them,but not surprisingly you're wrong again.
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