28/02/2010
Bangkok Post
A story in Friday's Bangkok Post (''Sam Rainsy must serve time, then run'') reports that Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen said that the leader of his country's main opposition party would not be permitted to participate in the next general election unless he serves a pending jail sentence. Hun Sen is reported to have said: ''This time the court sentenced him to jail _ no pardon this time ... You must be jailed first, if you are brave enough to come and be jailed.''
Should not the whole of Thailand shout a loud chorus of ''double standards''? Hun Sen is giving succour to another fugitive from justice, who has been ''sentenced to jail''. Sorry I forget, silly me. Cambodian justice is of course far superior to that meted out in Thailand.
Professor L A Damani
Songkhla
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