PUBLISHED: 9 Dec 2024 at 15: 28
On Monday, a group led by former yellow-shirt protest leader Sondhi Limthongkul demanded that the government renounce its 2001 memorandum of understanding ( MoU) with Cambodia or face protests. It arrived at Government House’s complaint center in Bangkok.
According to Mr. Sondhi, the head of the now-defunct Women’s Alliance for Democracy, the MoU that Thailand signed with Cambodia in 1973, based on international law, allowed Cambodia to bring the limit of its lakes inside Thai sea province, which King Rama IX had declared based on international laws, in 1973.
He added that the Thai legislature did not approve the MoU.
Thailand was later be viewed as having accepted Cambodia’s self-proclaimed sea limit and losing marine resources that should be its own, according to Mr. Sondhi, if the Thai government sticks to the MoU and continues to rely on it for future actions, he said.
He said the 2001 MoU created an intersecting says place covering about 26, 000 sq miles, primarily benefiting Cambodia, in the Gulf of Thailand.
According to Mr. Sondhi,” I would like to request the prime minister and the Pheu Thai Party if we are doing something incorrect because some overlapping prime ministers have agreements to share interests at 50:50,” if they are. He made reference to Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the head of the decision Pheu Thai Party and Thaksin’s girl.
He demanded the government question the Constitutional Court to act if the 2001 MoU is legal. If it is ruled legal, the government has withdraw it, Mr Sondhi said.
He added that the government would need to listen to his request within 15 days.
He claimed that he was certain of winning this battle, and that he would lead a big crowd of demonstrators when it comes up.
In 2005,  , Mr Sondhi , used his ASTV dish television network to establish a public campaign against , Thaksin. He became a leader of the yellow-shirt , People’s Alliance for Democracy ( PAD )  , movement which mobilised tens of thousands of protesters against , Thaksin’s government in mid-2006.
Gen Sonthi Boonyaratglin, the next army chief, threw a coup on September 19, 2006, and seized control of Thaksin.