The Criminal Court Thursday jailed six former leaders of the now-defunct People's Alliance for Democracy for leading protestes to storm into and occupy the Government House in 2008.

 

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Wait, I thought the current government and courts all exclusively protect only yellow shirts, and no justice can be expected....?

 

Funny how under the present government, people go to jail, no matter which color shirt they wear.

The question is will they actually spend any time behind bars personally I doubt it very much.

 

The sentence has already been reduced by one third and all six are out on bail I suspect for the remainder of their sentence

 

Justice in Thailand

Edited May 28, 201511 yr by Al.

Funny how under the present government, people don't go to jail, no matter which color shirt they wear.

 

Sorted!

Edited May 28, 201511 yr by filibuster

Ah, yes, of course. The usual.

Seems these are still in jail:

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31990182

 

These are still in jail:

 

http://news.yahoo.com/2-senior-officers-sentenced-jail-thai-police-scandal-083017874.html

I think their entire collection of aurulent coloured shirts was confiscated before their convictions.  

Edited May 29, 201511 yr by filibuster

Wait, I thought the current government and courts all exclusively protect only yellow shirts, and no justice can be expected....?

 

Funny how under the present government, people go to jail, no matter which color shirt they wear.

 

DaffyDuck I'm not sure you are right when you suggest that these were Yellow Shirts being jailed (or at least convicted) this time round,  The offences relate to activities in 2008.  The Yellow Shirts were storming Government Buildings in 2013 & 2014.  I might be wrong but I think the 2008 stormers were a different group.

My apologies DaffyDuck - I've just checked on Wiki and it seems PAD were "Yellow Shirts", but not sure why they were occupying Govt buildings then because Thaksin had already been removed by then.

Because his proxy government was elected, the PPP:

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008–10_Thai_political_crisis#History

 

Good timeline of the period. No worries about the confusion.

Edited June 2, 201511 yr by DaffyDuck