OPINION

Just desserts, Suu Kyi

Re: "Myanmar journalists wait and watch", Opinion, Feb 7).

Another deplorable act by former "democracy icon" Aung San Suu Kyi, that makes it more difficult to gather international condemnation for the coup.

"Suu Kyi's government was not known for protecting the media".

Exactly.

Ms Suu Kyi did absolutely nothing to help two Myanmar-born, Reuters Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists when they were set up in an army-controlled show trial.

In fact, the soldiers who were actually convicted of the premeditated massacre of unarmed villagers actually spent less time in jail than the Reuters journalists (16 months) who exposed it.

Aung San Suu Kyi is no friend of freedom of the press.

Who let them in?

Re: "186 new Covid cases Monday", (BP, Feb 8).

What I want to know is what is happening to the inquiries into the complicit immigration, police and employers who brought this disease back into the country! It seems to be utterly ignored but the Thai people deserve to know who is guilty because their actions have caused numerous businesses to collapse and thousands of innocent people have lost jobs that will never come back.

1984 all over again

Re: "Coup backers rally for military usurpers", (Opinion, Feb 6).

The pronouncement by pro-military monk Tipitaka Thitsar Pwintlin that "It is not a coup, but just an act of retaining the power to prevent others from misusing it", has to be right up there among the all-time great Orwellian fabrications.

Welcome to 1984, Myanmar!

Thai truth exposed

A recent BBC report on the coup in Myanmar included a claim from Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon that the coup was their "internal affair". By posting this after a series of condemnatory statements from other countries, the BBC maliciously made the Thai government appear unconcerned about the suppression of democracy.

Reporting on political events in Thailand by international news organisations is strictly banned on Thai TV. This is why all news channels operate on a five-minute delay so that some hired censor can switch off the feed whenever Thailand is mentioned. I hope that whoever was on censorship duty will be duly reprimanded and that we can return to the normal situation of keeping Thai audiences in a proper state of ignorance about what their government says and does.

Right on song

As I was reading "Just avoid the circus", (Khun Lungstib's Feb 7 letter), That old Barbara Streisand song Send in the Clowns hit the air. How appropriate.