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| Ousted Thaksin vows to end silence |
| 2009-03-26 |
| (Xinhua) -- Ousted former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra said on Tuesday night that he will end his silence in a bid to tell a full story from his side about the social division and the political turmoil erupted since he had came to power. Speaking during his phone-in to the red-shirted crowd in Thailand's northern province of Phitsanulok on Tuesday night Thaksin said he will tell the whole truth from his side to his red-shirted supporters on Thursday since his silence has not brought about peace as he previously hoped. "I have to shake things up in order to separate the black from the white," the website by The Nation newspaper on Wednesday quoted Thaksin as saying. It has remained unsure where will be the place for Thaksin to phone in on Thursday, while the red-shirted group or the United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) also plans to hold amass rally on Thursday. The UDD-led protestors on Thursday morning will start gathering at Sanam Luang in central Bangkok and will later in the afternoon march to the Government House, Nattawut Saikeua, UDD core leader said earlier. Thaksin was ousted by the military coup in September, 2006, in accusation of corruption, keeping him in exile since then. Thaksin returned to Thailand in February, 2008, to face corruption charges, but he later fled into exile again and was convicted in absentia. |
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