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BIT PLAYER: Thai engineer Sivarak Chutipong.Bangkok Post
It was, as Bangkok Post columnist Veera Prateepchaikul put it, "a well-scripted drama", and the government had no lines. Sivarak Chutipong, the Thai accused of spying, had no choice but to play his own silent part: Fire his first lawyer, go to court, receive his pre-determined "guilty" sentence, be respectful, go back to his cell at the unspeakable Prey Sar prison and wait for the gracious King Norodom Sihamoni to grant his pardon.
In this drama, Sivarak's mother Simarak na Nakhon Phanom appeared as the tragic figure.
The prosecutor, Sivarak and Mrs Simarak all fingered a senior Thai diplomat at the embassy in Phnom Penh as the key figure in the case. First secretary Kamrob Palawatwichai was identified by all three as asking Sivarak for Thaksin's flight plan. But Mr Kamrob was kicked out of Cambodia and has not appeared in any of the public events surrounding the trial - and of course could not have been at the trial even if he had wanted.
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