Red, yellow shirts agree on amnesty

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Arch-enemies reach deal on amnesty

Core UDD and PAD leaders pitch two bills

Published: 9 Feb 2013 at 01.11
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Members of the red- and yellow-shirt political camps have reached an agreement to press ahead with a pair of political amnesty bills.

Pheu Thai Party list MP and red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) core leader Korkaew Pikulthong, and Parnthep Pourpongpan, a core member and spokesman for the yellow-shirt People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) met at parliament on Thursday at the invitation of deputy House speaker Charoen Chankomol.

The meeting was revealed Friday by the two leaders of the rival colour-coded groups.

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loopholes
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Discussion 70 : 13 Feb 2013 at 13.2070
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Setting a precedent would definitely lead to a future disaster !!!
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Discussion 69 : 11 Feb 2013 at 09.3669
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Even the yellow PADs had no interest to include dem's AV and Suthep into the proposed amnesty bill.
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Discussion 68 : 11 Feb 2013 at 07.5868
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Re D27: What you say is only partly true also i.e. to the best of my recollection, essentially Mr. Abhisit had the nodding agreement of all but Red Shirt #1 on the phone to Thaksin (Abhisit had already cleared things at the other end of his own phone)and was only discussing the commonplace practicalities of naming an exact election date. I watched this on live TV and speak Thai well enough to clearly understand everything - even to the point of writing a letter published in the Post a few days later berating it for not providing just this sort of reportage. If there's a vid of this on youtube, I'd like to know. Take more care with your posts.
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Discussion 67 : 10 Feb 2013 at 18.0167
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If the guy in Dubai is not in the list of names eligible for an amnesty, then I predict this is not going to work.

And for the discussions below talking about PAD as terrorists for taking over the airport, by taking over the airport is not a terrorist act unless they seized it by means of violence. This is a groundless accusation and did not match with this term. This is why they are not going to jail for terrorism. Get it?
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Discussion 66 : 10 Feb 2013 at 12.5266
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No amnesty, all law breakers (red & yellow) must be sent behind bars.
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Discussion 65 : 10 Feb 2013 at 07.5765
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ringmaster - "You forgot one: Being killed by army snipers UDD 92, PAD 0"

When trying to refute a statement made by someone else, you have much more credibility when you use the truth.
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Discussion 64 : 10 Feb 2013 at 00.0064
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D62..Brilliant brilliant
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Discussion 63 : 09 Feb 2013 at 23.4063
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Disc 57 - "Tell me, exactly what law did they break at the airport?" The Montreal Convention of which Thailand was a signatory and ICAO has the Asia and Pacific (APAC) Office of ICAO in Bangkok.

The subsequent Beijing Achievements adopted important new international
Counter-terrorism instruments setting out what was and wasn't a terrorist act at an ICAO airport. The document is here feel free to read it. http://www.icao.int/publications/journalsreports/2011/6601_en.pdf
Or you could read Page 6-7, 12-13

Taking over an ICAO airport IS a international terrorist act.
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Discussion 62 : 09 Feb 2013 at 23.1362
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My first thought was Dumb and Dumber. I'm certainly no fan of PAD and obviously not of UDD. PAD is the Dumb and UDD the Dumber.
Put the two together and you half almost one full brain which makes it very dangerous.
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Discussion 61 : 09 Feb 2013 at 22.3161
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D 54 Englishbob - If this is your view of the Thai people why are you here? Generalization is the beginning of racism and your comment is very close to that. Just a reminder Nelson Mandela was the leader of the ANC and the ANC armed force and members killed many civilians by planting bombs in shopping malls, landmines on public roads, "necklacing" people that opposed them etc etc. Due to the fact that they fought against an unjust government made them freedom fighters, in todays world they may have been viewed as terrorist.
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