Ask Wong Ah Seng if any of his highly paid SPF commissioners & superintendents will scarify their own careers for the sake of national interest or people's interest?
I can not expect any LEEgime civil servants to do this for sake of Singapore or Singaporeans.
I have respect for this Thai Police General Somkid Boonthanom! Salute!
He is a patriot indeed.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iGeQu5dSrXKmPdfqn_4B7IfrkH4Q
Senior Thai police general turns down promotion after Saudi Arabia protests
By Thanyarat Doksone (CP) – 2 hours ago
BANGKOK — A senior Thai police officer indicted over the disappearance of Saudi businessman in Bangkok 20 years ago has turned down a promotion in the interests of better Thai-Saudi relations.
Lt. Gen. Somkid Boonthanom said he would forego the post of assistant national police chief so there would be no obstacles for more than 13,000 Thai Muslims seeking visas for the pilgrimage to Mecca.
This month the Saudi embassy protested the promotion of Somkid, who was indicted in January along with four other police officers on charges of premeditated murder and illegal detention over the 1990 disappearance of Saudi businessman Mohammad al-Ruwaili. It subsequently was reported to have slowed the issuance of visas.
Riyadh downgraded diplomatic relations — withdrawing its ambassador — after the murders of four members of its embassy staff in Bangkok in 1989 and 1990, and al-Ruwaili's disappearance. No one was brought to justice in any of the cases, whose motive remains unclear.
Saudi Arabia was also unhappy with the resolution of the 1989 theft of $2 million worth of gems and jewelry from a prince's palace in Saudi Arabia by a Thai worker. The thief was arrested and jailed after returning to Thailand. However, only a portion of the gems was ever recovered and returned by Thai police, and some were fake, leading to suspicions that senior police and members of the Thai elite kept the loot and ordered a coverup.
It was unclear if the violence was linked to the gems case. Other theories connected it to the lucrative business of sending Thai workers to the Middle East, or even to international terrorism.
Somkid currently serves as a regional police commissioner in northern Thailand. The government's earlier decision to promote him to assistant police chief was taken despite his indictment and its efforts to foster better relations with Saudi Arabia — long a destination for Thai migrant workers.
I can not expect any LEEgime civil servants to do this for sake of Singapore or Singaporeans.
I have respect for this Thai Police General Somkid Boonthanom! Salute!
He is a patriot indeed.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iGeQu5dSrXKmPdfqn_4B7IfrkH4Q
Senior Thai police general turns down promotion after Saudi Arabia protests
By Thanyarat Doksone (CP) – 2 hours ago
BANGKOK — A senior Thai police officer indicted over the disappearance of Saudi businessman in Bangkok 20 years ago has turned down a promotion in the interests of better Thai-Saudi relations.
Lt. Gen. Somkid Boonthanom said he would forego the post of assistant national police chief so there would be no obstacles for more than 13,000 Thai Muslims seeking visas for the pilgrimage to Mecca.
This month the Saudi embassy protested the promotion of Somkid, who was indicted in January along with four other police officers on charges of premeditated murder and illegal detention over the 1990 disappearance of Saudi businessman Mohammad al-Ruwaili. It subsequently was reported to have slowed the issuance of visas.
Riyadh downgraded diplomatic relations — withdrawing its ambassador — after the murders of four members of its embassy staff in Bangkok in 1989 and 1990, and al-Ruwaili's disappearance. No one was brought to justice in any of the cases, whose motive remains unclear.
Saudi Arabia was also unhappy with the resolution of the 1989 theft of $2 million worth of gems and jewelry from a prince's palace in Saudi Arabia by a Thai worker. The thief was arrested and jailed after returning to Thailand. However, only a portion of the gems was ever recovered and returned by Thai police, and some were fake, leading to suspicions that senior police and members of the Thai elite kept the loot and ordered a coverup.
It was unclear if the violence was linked to the gems case. Other theories connected it to the lucrative business of sending Thai workers to the Middle East, or even to international terrorism.
Somkid currently serves as a regional police commissioner in northern Thailand. The government's earlier decision to promote him to assistant police chief was taken despite his indictment and its efforts to foster better relations with Saudi Arabia — long a destination for Thai migrant workers.
