Chalerm: Reconciliation bill needed
Published: 20/05/2012 at 01:30 PM
Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung on Sunday insisted he would forward a draft reconciliation bill to the House of Representatives for deliberation at the right time.
Mr Chalerm was responding to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's call in his video conference to the red shirts gathering at Ratchaprasong intersection on Saturday night for them to set aside their anger and frustration over social and legal injustices for the sake of national reconciliation.
The deputy prime minister said he agreed with Thaksin and was of the opinion that only reconciliation would bring about peace in the country.
Therefore, he would forward a draft national reconciliation bill he had prepared to the House of Representatives for deliberation when the timing was right.
Under the draft which would not name any people in particular, all parties affected by the Sept 19, 2006 coup would benefit from it.
Mr Chalerm believed Thaksin would be able to return home by the end of this year provided that the national reconciliation bill was quickly passed into law.
Thaksin did not want to come home now because he wanted to see reconciliation in the country first, he said.
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