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Thai PM: bombing incidents don't yet warrant extra security law
BANGKOK, Feb 15 (TNA) - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Monday said it is unnecessary to invoke the Internal Security Act after the weekend bombing incidents at Government House and at the Supreme Court.
An M79 grenade attack occurred about 11pm on Saturday at Rajamangala
University of Technology Phra Nakhon, 50 metres from Government House.
Police believe that the grenade fired from a vehicle on Rama V Road was aimed at Government House but missed its target.
Police bomb experts on Sunday defused an explosive device hidden in a cardboard carton at the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions.
The premier said he believed the incidents were unlikely to be the work of ordinary people as such weapons are normally not in use nor in public possession. However, he stopped short of naming whom he believes are the perpetrators.
Amid police reports that some ill-intended groups may stir up violence in the capital's key areas, Mr Abhisit said he would instruct all state agencies to beef up security at their premises.
He also urged the public to cooperate with the government which itself will by all means ensure that no incident disrupts national development.
Meanwhile, Prompong Nopparit, Puea Thai Party spokesperson, said he is concerned that the incidents may have been the work of a third party whom he accused of being men in uniform with close ties to the government.
He charged that the attackers might have used the incidents to discredit both the Opposition and the anti-government Red Shirts in an attempt to invoke the Internal Security Act to suppress the planned major rally of the Red Shirts.
"I believe the government will invoke the special security law as it nears the date which the court is set to rule whether or not to seize the Bt76 billion assets of convicted prime minister Thaksin
Shinawatra," Mr Prompong said.
The Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions will hand down its ruling on the case on February 26.
The oppositon party spokesperson however declined to reveal the name(s) of those behind the incidents, saying it was confidential information received by his party. (TNA)
An M79 grenade attack occurred about 11pm on Saturday at Rajamangala
University of Technology Phra Nakhon, 50 metres from Government House.
Police believe that the grenade fired from a vehicle on Rama V Road was aimed at Government House but missed its target.
Police bomb experts on Sunday defused an explosive device hidden in a cardboard carton at the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions.
The premier said he believed the incidents were unlikely to be the work of ordinary people as such weapons are normally not in use nor in public possession. However, he stopped short of naming whom he believes are the perpetrators.
Amid police reports that some ill-intended groups may stir up violence in the capital's key areas, Mr Abhisit said he would instruct all state agencies to beef up security at their premises.
He also urged the public to cooperate with the government which itself will by all means ensure that no incident disrupts national development.
Meanwhile, Prompong Nopparit, Puea Thai Party spokesperson, said he is concerned that the incidents may have been the work of a third party whom he accused of being men in uniform with close ties to the government.
He charged that the attackers might have used the incidents to discredit both the Opposition and the anti-government Red Shirts in an attempt to invoke the Internal Security Act to suppress the planned major rally of the Red Shirts.
"I believe the government will invoke the special security law as it nears the date which the court is set to rule whether or not to seize the Bt76 billion assets of convicted prime minister Thaksin
Shinawatra," Mr Prompong said.
The Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions will hand down its ruling on the case on February 26.
The oppositon party spokesperson however declined to reveal the name(s) of those behind the incidents, saying it was confidential information received by his party. (TNA)
