The Christmas Eve verdict to convict and condemn two Myanmar men for the unspeakable Koh Tao beach murders touched off quite a firestorm of its own. There were protests, but really, quelle surprise, right?
The astonishing part were the Five Stages of Disbelief by senior government figures, who for some reason thought there would be no public displays over the most publicly disputatious court case in the nation’s history.
First Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon went on for some days about how anti-Thailand protests in Myanmar, Kuala Lumpur, Sri Lanka and other places must, had to be, could only be “instigated”. The instigators, who he named predictably without actually mentioning their names (much as this column does about Lord Voldemort na Dubai and every female ex-premier in Thai history), could not possibly be interested in the trial and verdict. The instigators only meant to make the government look bad, which by his statements seemed rather an easy task. (Courtesy of Bangkok Post: Opinion)
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