More weekend humor
In amongst all of the serious and discouraging news from Thailand, army chief General Anupong Pachinda has given us some humor.
He is reported, and we trust his comments haven’t been manipulated, to have said: “It does not make sense for the leader of the country and leaders of the armed forces to harm ordinary people…”.
We agree that it doesn’t make sense, but that hasn’t ever stopped them in the past.
Maybe Anupong has forgotten Thailand’s last 50 years, but PPT prefers to think that he was chuckling when he made this comment in the Bangkok Post (29 August 2009: “Democrats warn rivals over audio clip”).
In a second piece of what must be humorous editing, The Nation reports that Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban has had the “Internal Security Operations Command … set up a task force to keep peace at the red-shirt rally on Sunday and security measures are to be carried out under the rule of law…”.
Has to be a joke because ISOC is an agency responsible for multiple abuses of the law and human rights. Think of assassinations, Kru Se massacre, plots against political leaders, disappearances, 1976, and so on.
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