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Thaksin Verdict on land case; Guilty, sentenced to 2 year jail term
Thailand’s Supreme Court handed down a guilty verdict today to former prime minister Thaksin, guilty in the Ratchada land case. Thaksin was sentenced to 2 years in jail.
Thaksin in Chiang Mai, 2005, looking at CD-ROM cover

The Thai Supreme Court stated that Thaksin violated Article [...]

RE: Bangkok Post article on African Drug Dealer Gangs in Thailand
Editorial by David Barkdull, Bangkok
Many will recognized this press release in Bangkok Post for what it is. The typical tripe spun periodically by a figure head when it is his or her turn to say something, anything at all to seem responsible and relevant on [...]

Thaksin and wife on Thailand’s most wanted list
Thailand’s Ex-Prime Thaksin Shinawatra and wife Potjaman have been added to Thailand’s most wanted list. The Royal Thai Police have issued arrest warrants for ex-premier. Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife Potjaman fled to London earlier this week to avoid many criminal corruption cases in Thailand against them.
Police have [...]

The 3rd member of Thaksin Shinawatra’s legal team’s Thana Tansiri, a relative of Mr Thaksin’s wife began serving a 6-month jail sentence today on contempt relating to the Bt2 million pastry box bribery scandal case.
Thana was taken from Bamrungrad hospital in Bangkok by police and corrections officers to the Supreme Court in Bangkok.
Thana was in [...]

The Supreme Court in Bangkok, Thailand today sentenced 3 lawyers working for Thaksin to 6 months in jail far handing a box with pastries and 2,000,000 baht to a court official on June 10.
The 3 lawyers Pichit Chuenban, Suppasri Srisawasdi and lawyer Thana Tansiri.
The lawyer had made filing in court on June 10th and then [...]

Burmese prisoners killed by Police and Soldiers in Rangoon after cyclone hits Burma
Soldiers and police executed political prisoners at Insein Prison in Rangoon in the capital of Burma. The inmates there rioting, a total of 36 prisoners were shot dead and 70 injured at the infamous Burmese prison moments after Cyclone Nargis hit the shores [...]

Thailand defends new war on drugs
Thailand has defended its newly-launched war on drugs, reviving a controversial project of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, which critics said cost many innocent lives.
Interior minister Chalerm Yoobamrung defended the new campaign, saying: “There will not be any infringement of our people’s liberties and I have never said that I [...]

David Barkdull’s reply to:
The land of the free then deny freedom and rights to innocent people (until proven guilty)
but it’s ok because they don’t do it in the land of the free
David B: I really don’t think Monica Lewinsky’s ex-boyfriend’s wife, Hillary, can sort out something like this. It looks like sometimes extraordinary measures [...]

Thailand | Latest Breaking News | CIA Secret Prisons in Thailand
Tortured in Thailand
Washington DC - Destroyed CIA videotapes show the water-boarding of two suspected al-Qaeda leaders at secret CIA interrogations in Thailand during 2002, a US congressional hearing has heard.
Thailand authorities have long denied the existence of the so-called prison in Thailand - apparently on [...]