By Veera Prateepchaikul
Bangkok Post
When Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said he had no respect for the Thai justice system during his lengthy interview with local and foreign media at Phnom Penh's Pochentong airport on Nov 9, I was not surprised and thought he had said so because he might have felt very strongly for his "eternal friend", ousted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whom he believed was a victim of political persecution in Thailand.
But Hun Sen should have been fully aware, as the Abhisit government had already clarified, that the charges against Thaksin, which eventually resulted in his conviction and sentencing of two years' imprisonment, are not politically related, but concern corruption in connection with his wife, Khunying Potjaman's, acquisition of a huge land plot in Bangkok.
Yet the Cambodian government leader chose to ignore the government's explanation and used his emotions rather than conscience to judge the Thai justice system.
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