Ambassadors visit “7 Days, 7 Pains of People” exhibition : National News Bureau of Thailand

BANGKOK, 22 July 2010 (NNT) – The opposition Pheu Thai Party has invited ambassadors and their delegates from 23 countries to attend its “7 Days, 7 Pains of People” exhibition arranged at its party headquarters on Thursday.

Ambassadors and their entourages from many countries such as Germany, Hungary, China, Cambodia, the Netherlands, the UK, India, Australia, and many others this morning visited the exhibition organized by the Opposition. The US also sent its representatives to partake in the activity.

The exhibition has been organized to remind people of the military’s crackdown in the shopping district of Ratchaprasong Intersection, where the prolonged rallies of the anti-government United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) took place over two months ago.

Mr Noppadon Pattama, the former Foreign Minister and Legal Advisor to Ex-Prime Minsiter Thaksin Shinawatra, Pheu Thai Party Leader Yongyuth Wichaidit, and other Pheu Thai core members were on hand to welcome the diplomats to the exhibition.

Pheu Thai Party Spokesperson, Prompong Nopparit, said the ambassadors were invited to see the other side of the coin pertaining to the violence during the bloody crackdown that saw ninety people killed and two thousand others injured. He did not think the exhibition breached the state of emergency as it was considered an activity of political parties, which was allowed by the charter.