by Pancha Seila
The ministry of Foreign Affairs of the kingdom of Thailand makes it sound like Thailand is a saint, having no landmines, knowing nothing about landmines. If it is so why, Thailand has Thailand Mine Action Center(TMAC). What's for? Could Thailand has a generous heart to institute and to establish TMAC with well equipped and well trained personnel for Somalia and other landmine hot spots of the world? I don’t think so! Thailand cannot even come to term with itself, with the government, no different than the "jockey" who can or cannot ride "the horse," which is Thailand, depending on the "will of the owner," who is the Thai Armed Forces and the person who exercises effective control on the Thai Armed Forces.
In this map of Thailand politics where is the place of Thai people? Could it be just instrument of politics for the "jockey," "the owner of the horse," or "the Armed Forces," and especially the person who exercises effective control over them?
This brand of constitutional democracy very much praised by H.E. Futrakul Virasakdi is good only for Thailand, but it does not deserve respect of Thailand's neighbours when the government of Thailand utilized these "constitutional democratic processes" as a delay tactics, as an easy way out off international commitments.
It is the same "constitutional democratic process" which allows Thailand to draw the "UNILATERAL MAP," no less vicious than Hitler and Mussolini who drew their unilateral maps first before the Nazis and the Fascists invaded countries in Europe during World War II. It must be recalled that Cambodia lost the Northwest provinces including the Temple of Preah Vihear under the French-Thai Treaty of 1941, during World War II.
The PMN2 land mines, as Thailand has claimed to be the kind of land mines produced in Russia, could be bought by Thailand the same as for the AK 47 carried by Thai Suranaree troops and Thai paratroopers, or they could be duplicated by Thailand.
Vicious accusation does not go far. Facts and realities stick.