Thailand - ministers of ousted regime get decades in jail.
If the decades-long jail terms handed out to those of the ousted regime involved in the vote-buying rice
scam seem "harsh," just remember that they participated in the
pilfering of billions, left 1 million rice farmers unpaid, languishing
in debt, and drove some to suicide.
They also presided over the systematic attack and murder of protesters
who opposed them right before their regime was finally ousted by the
military after they ignored the courts and the police refused to act.
Do not forget what the Shinawatras, their party, and their foreign
supporters did to Thailand, its rice industry, and its farmers.
40 years is more than fair when you consider the suffering these people
intentionally, knowingly put the nation through for their own selfish
ends.
And as always, another Shinawatra has escaped justice,
flees in luxury, while people to this day still suffer from the
consquences of her greed.
Image: Rice farmers in Phitsanulok province were threatened by regime "red shirts" to end their protest. Often citedby the Western media in their "class divide" narrative,
it is now clear the nation's farmers were simply used to get Thaksin
Shinawtra back into power, and that the violence and intimidation
usually reserved for his political opponents is now being turned on them
in the wake of being cheated by his vote-buying rice subsidy scam. Rice
farmers have already turned in their rice, but have not been paid for
it for half a year - in other words - they were robbed. (Photo by
Chinnawat Singha)
