Bangkok bombs suspects released, old airport reopens
So here we are, back to where we started after the Bangkok bombings of New Year’s Eve. No arrests, no evidence, no charges. So what have we got? Well, there’s the coup that didn’t exactly go as smoothly as everyone thought; there’s the escalating problems in the south, where this morning two couples were gunned down in Songkhla as they rode to work on motorcycles; there’s the airport from hell; there’s the galavanting former-PM and his censored propaganda; and now, after all the fuss that was made last week, the 19 people who were taken in for questioning over the New Year’s Eve bombings have all been released.
From the International Herald Tribune yesterday:
“All of them have been released because we don’t have evidence they were involved in the bombs,” Lieutenant General Prayudh Janocha, commander of the army’s central region, said Saturday.
So why were they taken in at all then? And I was sure that Assistant National Police Chief Pol Lt-Gen Jongrak Chuthanont had gone on record as saying he knew who had blown up Bangkok, although in the same statement he did say it was hard to find evidence to convict criminals, so maybe we should give him a break, poor guy.
Those 19 people must have been arrested for some reason. Now we have come full circle and we still know absolutely nothing. Jemaah Islamiah has already denied any involvement, so the door is wide open to all theories.
As if the fallout from the mysterious bombs was not enough, today the transport ministry decided to reopen Don Muang Airport. Lucky for Thaksin he is not in power so that he has to deal with the shambles he created in making Thailand a travel hub for Southeast Asia. Domestic flights are due to resume soon in order to take some of the burden off the almost 4-billion baht Suvarnabhumi Airport. We were promised Rolex, we got a Casio calculator watch, and now it’s broken.
On a positive (?) note though, it was very, very cold today; so much so that I woke up shivering. The weather has gone completely barmy and it’s forcing me to consider buying a water heater.
Techno’ tags: Terrorism in Thailand, Bangkok bombings, Suvarnabhumi Airport
January 29th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
I think we should come up with a new term, and I suggest:
This Is Thailand (T.I.T)
It can be commonly used in most sentences when talking about Thailand or Thai ways, for example:
That Thaksin really screwed things up
T.I.T
or
RCA is really quiet these days, i wonder why?
T.I.T
Thoughts?
January 29th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
TIT, a joke, right? New? Bernard Trink used that in his Night Owl column for about forty years. Back to the drawing board.
January 29th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Some of us arent 60+ years old, I do apologise. never heard of the old fart before you pointed it out
Oh how fun this english language is huh?
January 30th, 2007 at 12:55 am
Oh my, I just wrote about missing Don Muang!
January 30th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Daniel, I don’t know where you come from but where I come from we were tuaght that it is rude to make stupid assumptions and use stereotypes. You claim I’m 60 because I read a lot, gee that’s clever. My parents have only just turned 60. I’m probably a few years older than you, if that. More insults?
January 30th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Oh calm yourself down, i rarely insult on the web, it’s not me.
this is the joy of the web, you can’t really gauge response or sarcasm well.
if you took that as an insult, then i do apologise
January 31st, 2007 at 8:58 am
None taken but thanks for the response all the same. Cheers!