Why Yingluck won’t be getting a Nobel Prize any time soon

TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2017
Why Yingluck won’t be getting a Nobel Prize any time soon

Re: “Yingluck turned down chance to become another Mandela”, Have Your Say, August 29.

Even if Yingluck Shinawatra had not escaped the country, and instead been imprisoned long-term like her colleagues, nobody would have considered her a martyr to a cause comparable with that of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela or Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi.
First, both Mandela and Suu Kyi were imprisoned for steadfastly upholding the principle of true democracy – one man, one vote. Both sacrificed personal comfort for their principles and through their personal suffering eventually brought relative peace and prosperity to their motherlands. Imprisoning Yingluck would perpetuate divisions in the country and aggravate conflict to the highest degree. Furthermore, if Yingluck is guilty, it will be because she acted in a self-serving manner, and not for the cause of democracy and the common good, as was the case with Mandela and Suu Kyi.
Correctly, Yingluck has chosen to abscond, breaking all her pledges to fight to the end and thereby crushing the hopes of many of her supporters. 
Does this mark an end to her family’s domination and thus a watershed for Thai politics? The level of public shock indicates so. 
Having lived in the UK for decades myself, her reported choice of the UK is definitely well-advised. I remember life in Surrey with a warm heart. Furthermore, the last such fugitive fought extradition successfully in the British courts, while his colleague chose Canada and is now residing at Bang Kwang Prison.
Songdej Praditsmanont