- Title: THAILAND: Soldiers enter Thai journalists' club to detain ex-minister
- Date: 27th May 2014
- Summary: BANGKOK, THAILAND (MAY 27, 2014) (REUTERS) ***PART QUALITY AS INCOMING*** ***CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** SOLDIERS ENTERING THAI FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT CLUB FORMER EDUCATION MINISTER, CHATURON CHAISAENG, TELLING MEMBERS' OF THE MEDIA TO CALM DOWN VARIOUS OF CHATURON BEING TAKEN OUT OF THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT CLUB CHATURON TELLING JOURNALISTS TO CALM DOWN WHILE BEING WALKED OUT CHATURON BEING TAKEN OUT AS HE THANKS THE PRESS HUGE CROWD OF MEDIA FILMING CHATURON CHATURON IN VAN, DRIVING OUT CHATURON AT NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) FORMER EDUCATION MINISTER, CHATURON CHAISAENG, SAYING: "General Prayuth might want to hold onto power for some time, that's what the ideas being proposed earlier that the...they need some time to clear things up." MEDIA FILMING THE NEWS CONFERENCE CHATURON TALKING AT NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) FORMER EDUCATION MINISTER, CHATURON, CHAISAENG, SAYING: "If anyone thinks that the coup will stop all the conflict and the turmoil or violence, they would be wrong because the coup will create more conflict in the society. And there'll be more potential for the society to face with violence, especially from oppression, suppression or oppression, even oppression against people." ARMY SPOKESMAN TEAM SITTING AT NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (Thai) DEPUTY ARMY SPOKESMAN WINTHAI SUVAREE SAYING: "He has violated the internal security law. His case will be tried in the military court as we announced earlier, it was during the imposition of martial law." MEDIA FILMING MILITARY OFFICIALS IN NEWS CONFERENCE
- Embargoed: 11th June 2014 13:00
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- Location: Thailand
- Country: Thailand
- Topics: Crime,Politics
- Reuters ID: LVAW6A0OZGD8VXLMCNO5XSUYY16
- Story Text: Eight armed soldiers burst into a journalists' club in Bangkok on Tuesday (May 27) and detained a former minister in the Thai government deposed by the army last week.
Former Education Minister Chaturon Chaisang, who had been on the run after refusing to turn himself in to the military after being summoned, had just given a talk at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand.
He had denounced a coup that he said would only exacerbate conflict in the polarised country.
"General Prayuth might want to hold onto power for some time, that's what the ideas being proposed earlier that the...they need some time to clear things up," he said at a news conference before he was led away.
"If anyone thinks that the coup will stop all the conflict and the turmoil or violence, they would be wrong because the coup will create more conflict in the society. And there'll be more potential for the society to face with violence, especially from oppression, suppression or oppression, even oppression against people," he said.
The army said they have detained Chaturon on grounds of "inflicting conflict" in society.
"He has violated the internal security law. His case will be tried in the military court as we announced earlier, it was during the imposition of martial law," deputy army spokesman Winthai Suvaree told reporters earlier.
Other former ministers were detained by the military after the coup on May 22 although most, including former premier Yingluck Shinawatra, have now been freed, even if their movements are being monitored. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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