West offers no answers to local problems
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The entire value system of the West is broken and must be ignored or discarded while considering allegations of murder against two former Thai prime ministers, and here are some examples of how that value system is broken.
In 2011 the UK, France and the US violated UN Security Council Resolution 1973 and killed innocent civilians in Libya, but their respective courts and news media have said almost nothing about those atrocities – and their silence is deafening.
Earlier this month, the US State Department recognised “freedom fighters” in Syria but also said that the most effective of those fighters are terrorists with possible links to al-Qaeda, according to the US State Department.
In other words: when terrorists are convenient enemies, then they are terrorists, but when they are convenient assets, then they are freedom fighters; when some governments kill innocent civilians, then those deaths are murders, but when Western governments kill innocent civilians, then those deaths are forgotten.
Please find a Thai or Asean way to deal with the current dilemma, as the West quite obviously has nothing to offer Thais in this particular situation.
Guy Baker
Bangkok
