LEFT: Takki disembarking from his big private jet at Pochentong International Airport in Phnom Penh on Dec. 11 RIGHT: Mr. Sivarak while being brought to court in Phnom Penh
Objective of the comedy: To show the world that Abhisit government has been insincere with Cambodia and carrying unfriendly acts against Cambodia in every way possible and that Takki is important to Cambodian economic development plan worthy of being appointed as Cambodian government’s adviser and Cambodian PM’s personal adviser.
Original plot: Eavesdropping and telephone tapping on the Royal Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh to pick whatever conversation that could be built as a case to accuse Thailand in anything possible and expand the case to full extent with an intention to cause damages to PM Abhisit’s reputation as a clean prime minister of Thailand with behind the scene supportin role by PT party.
Opening scene: Takki’s private plane landed at Pochentong International Airport in Phnom Penh on Nov. 11, 09. Cambodian television made a live telecast of Takki’s arrival at the airport. Cambodians everywhere knew when Takki’s plane had landed and the plane registration number. No one outside Hun Sen’s inner circle knew the plane carry a criminal fugitive former Thai PM.
Players in the comedy:
1) Leading actor: Cambodian PM Hun Sen
2) Co-leading actor: Mr. Sivarak, a Thai employee of CATS the air traffic control service provider. He might possibly be an innocent victim of the spying plot.
3) Co-leading actress: Mrs. Simarak, 65, the accused spy’s mother.
Her background: She and her relatives in Nakorn Phanom used to work as Big Jiew’s canvassers in Nakorn Phanom and a close political associate of Big Jiew. She is a member of the red-shirted group in Nakorn Rajasima. A well-dressed Simarak who wears fashionable Gucci sun-glasses, was very cool on the TV screen while giving interviews to reporters during the early days of her son’s arrest.
4) Part player No. 1: Takki as a victim of Thailand’s injustice and Abhisit’s witch hunt.
5) Part player No. 2: Big Jiew as a key person that can get Sivarak out of Cambodia’s jail through the influence of Hun Sen. The aim is to defame Abhisit in anyway thinkable, particularly as an unrespectable and naïve in terms of foreign relations.
6) Candid bit player: Kamrob Palawatwichai, First Secretary at the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh, an innocent inquirer of Takki landing time.
7) Incidental bit player: PT party’s spokesman, ex-third rated TV actor in TV folk tales shows, who played an energetic PT party’s spokesman who tried very hard to be a key person in PT’s bid to secure the release of Sivarak.
Fashionably dressed, Mrs. Simarak in front of Prey Sar Prison in Phnom Penh today’s morning
The unexpected change of closing scene: Worldwide report of the one-day trial of Sivarak, a classic theatrical farce ever staged in a court of justice, which was in breach of universally accepted legal standard as the spying charges were loosely constructed. The charge of stealing Cambodia’s national secret information is, in fact, a false accusation per se. This is because the landing of Takki’s plane was televised live as public information. It cannot be a secret of any kind.
The judges did not referred to any Cambodian law as a basis for the offence Sivarak had made and the sentence of 7-year jail term had not based on any law. The court and the Cambodian PM might be warned of the violation of Sivarak’s human rights and the fact that he may face international criticism and UN investigation if he decided to do nothing to nullify the mistrial of Sivarak.
The trial is considered a gross violation of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Paris, 1948). So, the plot had to be rewritten to change the closing scene, in which the royal pardon must be hurriedly arranged within 24 hours of the court’s delivering of the verdict (Cambodia law requires that a pardon can be arranged after the prisoner serves at least two thirds of the jail term he was sentenced for). This is to wipe off as quickly as possible the stain of extremely baseless court trial, one of the most ridiculous court case ever seen in a country declared as a democratically ruled kingdom. Factually, the trial can be seen as a kangaroo court in any perspective.
The leading actor in this political circus is the Cambodian PM, who once, at the opening day of 15th ASEAN Summit at Cha-Am, in Petchburi on Sat Oct 24 this year, openly criticized Thailand’s justice system, while giving interview to international reporters. This guy accused Thailand’s Supreme Court of unfair treatment towards the corrupt former Thai PM who jumped bail and became a richest criminal fugitive the world has ever known.
Another reason is that Sivarak happens to be a son of a Takki’s late old friend, who used to lend money to Takki in the past when Takki was a struggling open-air movie theatre operator in Chiengmai. Sivarak’s father is described as a broad-minded businessman, who had never called for pay back the money from Takki.
According to news report in The Nation, Sivarak said to a TV reporter from Thailand that he spent 32 sleepless nights in Prey Sor jail and wants to see Mr. Kamrob Palawatwichai, the First Secretary at the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh. He wants to ask him why he rang him for the landing information. Mr. Kamrob was expelled by Cambodian government on Nov. 11, the day Takki arrived by his private plane in Phnom Penh to accept his appointment as Cambodian government economic adviser and Hun Sen’s personal adviser.
Sivarak’s dialogue after being released from jail is completely opposite to what he said the first few days. He used to say that he was fine while staying in his cell. He told his mother on the first telephone contact not to worry of anything about being in jail. He was treated well by the prison officials. But after meeting with Takki yesterday in the prison, his dialogue changed its tone. His fresh statement after being released is in contrast with his previous statement after being put into jail prior to his court trial. He also said something in his interview with the media that contained some words that resembled words used by Takki in his twitter messages.
So, the production of this political circus has to be cut short because it was crudely made with a bad script basing on legally baseless accusation and in breach of UN Human Rights Declaration. What do you think?
