August 11, 2008, Thaksin Shinawatra and his family are in London, UK.  Thai Court are so angry becuase now Thaksin is saying he and his family did not receive fair trial.

The billionaire telecom tycoon was thrown out of power by military when he was visiting the UN in September 2006.

Thaksin was very popular among the poor and the have-nots in Thailand.  His policy that gave him 2 landslide winnings of popular votes, includes cheap medicare (the poor can get almost free medical treatment), low interest loans to farmers who cannot afforde loan from commercial banks, one village one product productivity campaign to help farmers earn extra income during non-harvesting season.

After the coup in 2006, special investigation was set up against Thaksin accusing him of corruptions and that he pocketed billions of dollars during his term as prime minister.

Until today, August 12, 2008, the military and their alliances cannot produce any such evidence.  If Thaksin was so corrupted, where was his money? Who paid him? Why the military can not get the banks to confirm any special payment to him or to anyone related to him.

The billions dollars assets that his family has and was frozen was the money they received from the sale of shares in their telecommunication businesses founded by Thaksin since 1980, decades before he joined politics.

The only case that the military-backed committee can file against Thaksin in court was the ‘Land Deal’.

From the military perspective, the purchase of a specifice plot of land by Thaksin’s wife was a corruption. Thai people also has such information because most newspaper were bombarding such stories days in days out.

Let the free people of the workd decide for themselves: