By Tulsathit Taptim
tulsathit@nationgroup.com
The Nation
Okay, it’s conspiracy theories time. I’m not here to discount or inflame any of them, and will only share with you information and speculation passing through our newsroom.
You can choose what to believe. All I can guarantee is that while there seem to be hidden agendas everywhere else, here we don’t have any ulterior motive. You will be getting our honest assessments of the situations.
The question on everyone’s mind is, “Why now?” Why the gunfire, artillery fire and bombs rattling the Thai-Cambodian border again all of a sudden? To that, nobody has the real answer, and even Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa knows this much for certain: Abhisit Vejjajiva and Hun Sen had better hurry. The two leaders must talk now before it’s too late.
I’d like to add that if Abhisit and Hun Sen don’t want to do so for peace’s sake, then it should be for sanity’s sake. The latest claims emerging from the Thai yellow shirts’ camp – that the border clashes are a conspiracy to draw Thai troops to the border so they will be too pre-occupied to stage a coup – have been bettered by Noppadol Pattama’s reaction. As if it was necessary, the close aide to Thaksin Shinawatra has come out to publicly deny that his boss was in Cambodia to command Cambodian troops at the border.
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