Wednesday night massacre

[mallard]

Source: Bangkok Post

The Constitution Tribunal judges climaxed a day-long reading of the verdict in the political parties case by ordering the powerful Thai Rak Thai Party of ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra dissolved for election cheating - and banning Thaksin and 110 top members from political life for five years.

The nine judges also found two Thai Rak Thai executive committee members guilty of illegally hiring small parties in the April, 2006, election - Gen Thammarak Issarangkura na Ayudhya and Pongsak Raktapongpaisarn.

"The Thai Rak Thai's crimes are very dangerous to democracy," Judge Krairerk Kasemsant said.

Analysts were subdued and worried.

Read more: http://www.bangkokpost.com/judgementday/index.php?id=119106

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The people running Thailand since the Sept 19 coup are the only ones making a show of force on the streets so far and those bombings in Hat Yai area just over the weekend seem to have helped calmed the population much as the New Years bombings did in Bangkok.

The new PM and Gen Sonthi are fine gentleman, but nobody seems to know who's really in charge, just that they are really in charge. No demos aside from those for drill parade would be my guess.

mallard / langkawi / malaysia

[UrbScotty]

1. You get busted for cheating on elections over there?

Makes me long for the good ol' days, when US Presidents were impeached for cheating on their wives.

[shenmue]

2. Wow, their judges actually do their jobs?

:wow:

What a concept!