Yingluck urges junta to return rights, freedom

“I would like to ask them whether the reconciliation process has been inclusive and if it's going in the right direction or not,” Yingluck said on her Facebook page today.
“ I also hope that the National Council for Peace and Order  will accelerate the implementation of reforms that will move the country back towards path to democracy as specified by their own roadmap,” she said.
She also urged the NCPO to urgently address problems facing the people. “I have growing concerns because today, people are suffering from economic hardship, poverty and critical social issues including increasing drug use,” she said.
The stripped ex-PM recalled when the junta justified the coup by claiming that her government could no longer govern the country and they needed to come to proceed with reconciliation process.
“It was also the day that the people's rights and freedom were taken away,” she said  “I wish that they will swiftly return happiness to the people. By happiness, I mean the basic rights and freedom that will allow the people to once again choose their own destiny,”
“This will ensure that the past two years would not have been wasted,” she added “I remain hopeful that this will be the case,”
Pheu Thai-backed Yingluck, who became the PM in 2011 via election, was stripped from her acting post as the coup entered to “put an end” to the then-intense political protests, starting  in 2013 following her government’s  attempt to pass the blanketing amnesty bill.
Yingluck is still now challenged by the military-installed government for the rice-pledging scheme as she chaired the rice committee  by then.