Democrats questions motive of scholars
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The opposition Democrat Party Monday questioned the motive of a group of legal scholars seeking the invalidation of all judicial decisions resulting from the coup of 2006.
Democrat MP and deputy spokesman Atthaporn Ponlaboot said he suspected that the proposal by the group, which calls itself Nitirat (Citizens of Law), might eventually benefit fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra and further attempts to win him a royal pardon.
Thaksin has been in selfexile overseas to avoid a twoyear imprisonment sentence for abuse of power handed down in 2008 by the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders.
“The proposal by Nitirat to nullify any action by [the coupmakers] is just an academic smokescreen aimed at helping to whitewash Thaksin’s wrongdoings,” Atthaporn said.
