Asean Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan on
Thursday is optimistic that the crowds protesting against the controversial
reconciliation law will not storm the ongoing World Economic Forum in a repeat
of the Asean Summit in Pattaya in 2009.
The
protesters led by People's Alliance for Democracy, known as yellow shirts, are
gathering in front of the Parliament to protest against the law as it is aimed
at whitewashing exThai premier Thaksin Shinawatra and his cohorts and bringing
Thaksin home.
During
the Abhisit Vejjajiva government, red shirts protesters, supporters of Thaksin,
stormed into a Pattaya hotel where the Asean Summit was being held, resulting
in the abrupt cancellation of the meeting. Asean leaders had to be escorted
from the hotel with some being flown by helicopter back to the airport to
return home.
Surin,
who is in Bangkok to attend the WEF, said as Asean chief he was also in that
Pattaya hotel.
"If
an invasion were to really happen, it would not be worse than last time.
However, no one wants to see the repeat of the incident," he said.
Prime
Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of Thaksin, has repeatedly declined to
comment on the law, claiming it is the duty of the parliament to decide.
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