Mark MacKinnon
Beijing — From Thursday's Globe and Mail Published on Wednesday, May. 26, 2010 11:13AM EDT Last updated on Friday, May. 28, 2010 5:52AM EDT
His followers have been ousted from the streets of Bangkok and he now faces charges of terrorism that could lead to the death penalty, but Thailand’s fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra says the Red Shirt struggle against the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is not over, and warns it could get more violent yet.
In a telephone call to The Globe and Mail placed from an unknown location, Mr. Thaksin said “reconciliation feels very far away” in Thailand after a military crackdown that brought an end to more than two months of rolling anti-government protests by the Red Shirts that had paralyzed the centre of Bangkok.
He recalled that when Red Shirt leaders announced their intention to surrender after the military moved in last Wednesday, they were jeered by many of the protesters who had been sleeping in the streets for weeks in the effort to bring down Mr. Abhisit’s government and force new elections. “The protesters, they were very angry. They were ready to die because they feel the injustice against them. They want to fight,” Mr. Thaksin said, in some of his first comments since those events. “Those who survived are very angry. It’s not a good sign. I am very worried. … I worry about the anger and I worry the government has cornered them instead of talking to them.”
Mr. Thaksin accused the government – which he repeatedly described as a junta – of hunting down his supporters and detaining them without charge even after they had ceased their protest and returned home. He said he was “ready to compromise,” but charged that the government was more interested in persecuting its political opponents than in bringing the deadly political crisis to a close.
http://www.theglobea...article1581478/
Undrar hur han vet allt detta eftersom han sagt att han inte alls har haft nån inblandning i protesterna..

