Bangkok: Thailand needs fair laws that are respected by officials or else risk more conflict, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said in a thinly-veiled criticism of the country’s current administration.“We shouldn’t allow people who ignore the law to interpret it,” he said in a video call on Friday with supporters for his 70th birthday.
Thaksin hasn’t set foot in Thailand since he was convicted for corruption in a case brought after the 2006 coup that ousted him. Some reports said he was speaking from Dubai.
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