No signs of unrest after impeachment

No signs of unrest after impeachment

There have been no signs of unrest after the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) voted to impeach former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra over the rice-pledging scheme on Friday, Col Winthai Suwaree said on Sunday.

Also on Friday, the Office of Attorney General (OAG) announced the indictment of Ms Yingluck in the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions for alleged negligence of duty allowing corruption to prevail in the implementation of the same programme. 

Col Winthai, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) and army spokesman, said so far there had been no signs of any groups coming out to cause unrest although many people had expressed their opinion differently over the impearchment.

He believed the people would understand that the justice process taken by the NLA was a separate issue from the NCPO's reconciliation work and that the NCPO had not given an instruction for NLA members to vote for or against Ms Yingluck.

So far Ms Yingluck had not sought permission from the NCPO to travel abroad, Col Winthai said.

"The situation is generally normal.  The peace keeping forces have maintained law and order under the martial law," he added.

Col Winthai said on Jan 26 Lt Gen Pisith Sitthisarn, the army deputy commander in his capacity as director of the Reconciliation Centre for Reform (RCR), will report to the NCPO about progress made in the organsation of forums to take opinion on reform under the supervison of the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc).

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