Rally shows that "red-shirts", Thaksin share different goals
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Also on Sunday, the "red-shirts" read out its four points of demand at a rally in Chiangmai, which include release political prisoners in custody since the 2006 power seizure, reform the judiciary to introduce trial by jury, retool the economy as a welfare state and close the income-disparity gap and institute a price guarantee for farm products
Just one day before the rally, Thaksin wrote in his twitter that he called on everyone to look forward and show compassion and forgiveness to heal the victim of the unrest.
Thaksin does not understand the mood or the feeling of the reds any more, they not only protest to support him, but also ask for their own agenda, but the former prime minister are still trapped in his own world of reconciliation and forgiveness, she said.
"He (Thaksin) does not stop supporting the 'red-shirts'' and some politicians in the Puea Thai Party. Meanwhile, he is trying to contact some social elites to ask for his forgiveness," she said. "If he continues to move in this way, he will distant himself more and more with the 'red-shirts' movement."
THAILAND HAS BEEN VICTIMIZED
Four years since the 2006 coup, the Thai society as a whole has been victimized, Siriphan said.
The Thai society are victimized by ourselves, may be by the struggle between different interests groups, she said.
Over the solution for the current crisis, the analyst said that let people be independent from the patron or the leader of different interests groups and make people reliable on themselves.
"Let the democratic process take its way, an election will be a good start, a judicial process to find out who should be responsible for those incidents, " she said.
After the latest chronic protest by the red-shirts from mid- March to May 19, during which 91 people were killed and nearly 2 000 injured in the conflicts between security forces and the protesters, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva set up three committees to start the reconciliation process.
About the idea of setting up a "national government" to solve the current crisis, she said it is not practical.
"If there is such a government, it should be formed by non- elected politicians, " the lecture said." Whoever want to set up a such government, they have to amend the constitution first, because under the current law, the national government is not allowed."
It is very difficult for the ruling Democrat Party to join hands with the Puea Thai Party to form a national government.
The idea was also rejected by Prime Minister Abhisit on Wednesday.
"I don't think that a national government will really benefit the general public, but more of the politicians." the prime minister said after Deputy Prime Minister Sanan Kachornprasart met with Natthawut Saikua, a "red-shirts" leader who is being held at a Bangkok prison and the People's Alliance for Democracy also know as the "yellow-shirts" core leader Sondhi Limthongkul to discuss the reconciliation process.
