order stripping fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra
of his police rank.
The proposal to revoke Thaksin's lieutenant colonel rank, put
forward by the Royal Thai Police, now goes to His Majesty
the King for endorsement. Before that happens, however,
Gen Prayut said government officials must work out a few
remaining details.
The RTP recommended Thaksin's rank be stripped after
the former prime minister, during a May trip to Seoul,
accused privy counsellors of playing behind-the-scene roles
in street rallies that led to last year's coup.
The proposal bounced back and forth between a police panel
set up to consider the rank issue and national police chief
Somyot Pumpunmuang, with the committee suggesting his
rank be removed, but Pol Gen Somyot demanding a thorough
legal study that resulted in delaying the outcome.
Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-Ngam said the signed
proposal was was not yet sent to HM the King, as details
needed to be finalised for publication in the Royal Gazette.
While the rank issue now has been all but settled, the debate
probably won't stop there, with revocation of Thaksin's royal
decorations likely the next target of his detractors.
Gen Prayut said any revocation of royal decorations must
begin with the police agency and noted that former military
and policeofficers previously had their ranks and decorations
rescinded. But those cases received no media attention because
they were ''nobodies", he added. "This person has not stopped
and (the public) cannot escape his presence.
Everybody gets excited every time this person makes a move,
'' the prime minister said without referring to Thaksin by name.
Thaksin has received four royal decorations, including the of
Chula Chom Klao.
Gen Prayut said he did not see Thaksin as his enemy and
will follow proper procedures. "I'm not fighting anybody,
but he will be arrested (if he comes back)," he said.
Thaksin fled the country before the Supreme
Court's Criminal
Division for Political Office Holders' ruling in 2008 on
the
Ratchadaphisek land deal. He was sentenced in
absentia to two years.
He also faces arrest for in the Krungthai Bank loan case.
The Office of the
Attorney-General has named him the first
defendant. Thaksin told a red-shirt
meeting in Finland
on Aug 15 that he couldn't' care less about his police rank and
told authorities to get it over with quickly. Rank in the Thai
military and police
forces is bestowed by the monarch, and
an officer can only be formally stripped
of it by royal assent.
News,Politics,Bangkok Post, 3 September
2015.
In my viewpoint,it is the fact that Thaksin
is behind all political
conflict and controversial in the Thai society for a long time
since he found guilty of the Ratchadaphisek
land deal.
He was sentenced in absentia to two years but he flew
away abord.
Stripping fugitive ex-premier Thaksin
Shinawatra of his police
rank will
not stop his roll to lead the Red Shirts but it is the
sign of declining his
roll in the future.
Thanks
for the Prime Minister Prayut and the chief Police
Somyot who work out the case of stripping
Thaksin police rank.
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