Somchai vows Yingluck and he won’t flee
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Former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat has maintained that he and Yingluck Shinawatra, another ex-premier from the Pheu Thai Party, will not leave the country to escape legal cases against them.
He said they were both confident of their innocence and would remain in the country to fight the separate court cases against them.
“If we escape, it means we are really guilty. As long as we are confident of our innocence, we don’t need to escape,” Somchai said in an exclusive interview with the Nation Group recently.
Somchai, a leader of the Pheu Thai Party, is being tried by the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders for alleged abuse of power over a deadly crackdown on a yellow-shirt protesters in 2008. That year, he served briefly as prime minister in a Pheu Thai-led government.
