(Posted by CAAI News Media)
By Nirmal Ghosh
BANGKOK - FORMER Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has said that an article published online on Monday from an interview he gave to the Times of London was 'distorted'.
'It (the article) was a complete distortion of my interview,' he said, in a statement. 'The falsified article has caused confusion among the readers and the Thai people.
'I would like to repeat again that my family and I are loyal to His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen and, like all Thai people, ready to sacrifice our lives to protect the monarchy.'
His statement came after an angry reaction from many to the interview, which appeared online yesterday morning.
Mr Thepthai Senpong, a spokesman for Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, waved a printout of the interview at reporters and said Thaksin's comments were offensive to the monarchy, and may warrant 'seven generations of beheading'.
The Times quoted Thaksin as saying, in his first explicit comments on succession in the monarchy: 'There's going to be a smooth transition but Thais need to reconcile their differences first, before the reign change. The reign change will be smooth.'
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