Veera stuck between the proverbial

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Published: 5/03/2011 at 03:34 AM
Newspaper section: News

In our lives we surely must have come across one of those unfortunates _ the short-sighted girl who loses her spectacles on a camping trip; the nice boy who makes one simple mistake and his life spirals downhill to that miserable place of what-could-have-been; the person who seems to stumble just a little but falls all the way into the deep, dark abyss...

I often think of Veera Somkhwamkid as one such unfortunate soul.

For some inexplicable reason, Mr Veera finds himself in a corner so painfully tight that no choice seems available to him that will not entail his ending up in utmost misery.

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jimbly
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Discussion 12 : 06/03/2011 at 01:47 AM12
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Discussion 5 BINGO! Outside of this tiny Thai pond, the frog is not so big! Perhaps this is a direct result of Thai governments not dealing with the People Against Democracy as they should have. Do you think Kuhn Veera may have gotten used to being invincible because of the ineptitude of the Thai authorities?
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Discussion 11 : 05/03/2011 at 10:57 PM11
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Veera put himself there nobody else so let him learn his lesson and maybe other idiots in certain groups might look and see what should happen to them when they do wrong,please anymore volunteers please please !!!!
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Discussion 10 : 05/03/2011 at 10:03 PM10
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@#9: Hear, hear! The editor might also want to consider the plight of ethnic Khmer citizens on the Thai side of the border.
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Discussion 9 : 05/03/2011 at 08:57 PM9
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What a foul insidious article. Lives were lost because of this feckless irresponsible cretin. How about having a touch more respect for the actual people who have died in this absurd jumped up little spat. There was never a problem before. The entire fiasco was never even touched upon 15 or 20 years ago. It was created by morons such as him to fan the flames of their political posturing and it is not helped by fatuous poorly written journalism such as this. "The soft tinkling of sound of buffalo bells... the short sighted girl who loses her spectacles..." Utter bilge. And this from the deputy editor.
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Discussion 8 : 05/03/2011 at 06:17 PM8
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Veera should not stop fighting. Not now.
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Discussion 7 : 05/03/2011 at 01:50 PM7
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This is a fabulous article. And I agree with the posted comments for the most part. D 6 seems decisively off the mark, though. If Veera knew he was doing something wrong, he wouldn't have exuded the confidence and inner calm the author of this artcile describes. The gambit backfired enormously, of course. It put into play the present crisis of relations with Cambodia - which prior had been relatively stable.
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Discussion 6 : 05/03/2011 at 11:12 AM6
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Veera is just a puppet of those elites in Bangkok. He was brainwashed and sent to do something he himself knew was wrong. He is just a tool used by the powerfuls to get their power. He was over committed. The ways he acted in the court (arrogant, ignorant....) gave the judges no sympathy for him. 8 Years should be enough for him to learn to do something else for good cause.
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Discussion 5 : 05/03/2011 at 10:48 AM5
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In Thailand, people of importance have this aura of invincibility and being untouchable and that the law does not apply to them. Little do they understand that outside of Thailand, their ill-gained power means absolutely nothing and they are truely no one of any significant importance like they believe they are.
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Discussion 4 : 05/03/2011 at 10:44 AM4
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"The footage, which showed a clear sky and a golden-brown, just-harvested field with the soft tinkling sound of buffalo bells in the background"

A few days later however, the atmosphere was dramatically replaced with the sound of bombs, the stench of death and the buffalos all gone! All thanks to this arrogant old man.
Does Veera think about the families of the dead soldiers? I very much doubt it! Som nam na Veera.
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Discussion 3 : 05/03/2011 at 09:53 AM3
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bravo . finally inteligent observations. mostly all of us can look back at a time ,where wedid something so stupid that we continualy asked ourselves " how could we be so stupid" many in prison ask themselves every day.someone outsmarted themselves. maybe he was gullable .maybe somene said go ahead well back you.w'ere powerful and the establishment is gullable .take videos and then we will have something to prove our rightesness? . well verra you backed the wroong puppy.(and unfortunately you might have gotten away with it in thailand . BUT you picked a fight another country! thailand doesnt have jusisdiction and people will remember your lack of sanity.your secratary surly will. )
this article is great and you cant argue with its logic good job!!
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