In many ways Thaksin, Hun Sen are political clones

Tue, November 17, 2009
By Sopon Onkgara
The Nation

IF fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra is predictable in any way, it is that he never admits any wrongdoing. Call it a sense of survival or deniability. It just does not make any difference. In his own view, he is a man who does no wrong.

Shortly after somebody hurled a grenade into the rally site of the People's Alliance for Democracy on Sunday night, causing several injuries, Thaksin wrote on Twitter that he had nothing to do with the act. But nobody had yet to accuse him of anything. It was the purpose of deniability, all the same.

There was something quite odd about the content of his denial. He was profusely forceful in the message that such an act should be condemned, and that he professed a peaceful path in dealing with conflicts. Such comments are alien to the nature of a man who made rousing speeches instigating red shirts to create havoc in Bangkok during the last Songkran festival.

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