Another day, another protest. The latest involved 20,000 Thai's storming the National Broadcasting Tribunal (NBT) and surrounding parliament demanding that the Prime Minister resign as he is nothing but a puppet of ex PM Thaksin Shinawatra, who is banned from politics and now on the run in the UK after corruption charges were brought against him and his wife.
His wife was found guilty and sentenced to 3 years, however, she was released on bail pending an appeal just prior to the Olympics and subsequently boarded a flight to London with her children. Their not coming back to Thailand and have applied for political asylum. So what you might ask?
Well, neither the Thai government or judicial system seem interested in asking for their extradition. In fact they have already ruled extradition a hopeless cause, preferring instead to seize Thaksin's assets worth 2.2 billion AUD which have been frozen since the Military staged a coup in September 2006. Soap opera's don't get any better than this, stay tuned for the next episode 'Thai's love Thaksin strike back' or 'Next stop the monkey house'.
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