Anand speaks on Thaksin's Power Grab

Former PM Anand Panyarachun, currently head of the National Reconciliation Commission tasked with finding solutions to the violence in the South, has spoken publicly about Thaksin's new emergency power measures. Anand regards it as a huge mistake which may end up provoking an even worse crisis by completely alienating the population of the deep South who already mistrust Thaksin.

Anand added that it was a mistake for the measure to be passed as a cabinet resolution rather than being put before the full parliament for approval. As such it lacks legitimacy.