re: "Prayut rejects call for detente with Thaksin" (BP, January 9)
Dear editor,
Unfortunately for the ruling politicians who overthrew the supreme legal pillar of the Thai nation on May 22, 2014, the international community knows as well as domestic Thai voters that being a fugitive criminal from Thai rule of law does not mean that any wrong has been committed. In this regard, it should be remembered that it was his own acquittal by Thai rule of law in 2001 of any wrong doing for his "honest mistake" that allowed Thaksin to become PM in the first place. That example, along with the recent well-watched decision by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and numerous other examples, can but confirm that the world is right not to confuse Thai rule of law with actual justice founded on respect for truth or other good morals.
As Thai election results consistently show the Thai nation to know every bit as well as the international community, the proper response to the fact tediously repeated by dictators that Thaksin is a fugitive criminal is: "So what?"
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on January 12, 2019, under the title "So what?" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1609886/curb-cars-to-cure-air
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