PAD rallies at British embassy

BANGKOK: -- Protesters rallied outside the British Embassy Thursday morning to demand an extradition of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Hundreds of protesters led by the People's Alliance for Democracy started gathering outside the embassy at 9:30 am.

A company of policemen were deployed to keep security.

The PAD protesters block the traffic on Wireless Road from the Ploenchit Intersection to the Phetchaburi Road.

After the rally at the embassy, the PAD protesters will march to the Emporium shopping mall to distribute VCDs and documents as part of their awareness campaigns on police's bloody crackdowns on protesters on October 7.

-- The Nation 2008-10-30

Thaddeus

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BANGKOK: -- Protesters rallied outside the British Embassy Thursday morning to demand an extradition of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra

How sad that PAD is so out of touch with events and its own judiciary. As I wrote on 28 October Thaskin's lawyers have 30 days to enter his appeal against his conviction to the Supeme Court of Thailand. The court will then have to convene a full bench to review his appeal during which time there cannot be an appeal by Thailand to Briton for extradition.
It is therefore evident that the Attorney General must have suspended the extradition request to Briton so the demonstration outside the British Embassy is useless and just a publicity stunt by its leaders who are misleading its supporters and diverting energies towards Britain and not where they want their energies to be more 'usefully' placed.

With violence escallating (Another bomb attact on PAD positions and a shooting to death within their compound) and disruption of roads (Marching) and school children not being able to get to school today, exports dropping and foreign investment into Thailand at a low, ill advised and useless demonstrations are doing Thailand little good.