Death Squads carrying out summary executions of Drug Barons? Seems that for once, we have a Football League Chairman who is truly in touch with the popular view of the average football fan!

The West happily run around announcing their definition of 'Human Rights' whilst at the same time flauting the rights they claim to support (noteably the USA).

This is yet another case of the vocal minority outshouting the views of the majority. The Human Rights 'terrorists', in the shape this time of HRW, really should take a rain check on reality before trotting out this sort of tripe.

City to finish in top 10.

Mike Oxlong, Manchester, UK

Sir,
Football - To many it is a religion...

SC, London, United Kingdom

Drug dealing in Thailand has been a crime punishable by death for many years in Thailand and well before the regime of Thaksin Shinawatra.

If you condem a man for working within the laws of his country to reduce the scum that is drug dealers whilst also providing the poor of his nation with better healthcare and education, then maybe you should look at the way other countries act and politicians inluding the British act.

Should as I have seen in the press new rules within the premier league require a tougher "fit and proper persons" test for Dr Shinawatra, then this MUST also apply to all current Premier League chairman, let's have the Glaziers and Abramovich tested!

Clive Barber, cairns, Australia

so if hrw had all these concerns why weren't they raised a few months ago? if thaksin's army carried out this bloodlust then why are they not implicated? and why are they now running the country?
i'm, admittedly, a city fan and my view is likely to be subjective but it seems there is an awful lot of time given to this. what about roman abramovich's millions creamed from the poor populace? what about freddy shepherd's property dealings between his brothers and newcastle united? in fact i don't think there is a significantly wealthy person who is whiter than white.
is this guy from hrw a man united fan by any chance? he can take his pity and bottle it because we don't need any. we're gonna win the league!

geordieblue, newcastle,

thaksin is said to have won elections through "vote-buying" in the poor north, and other such populist strategies. the police were doing the shooting during the war on drugs as far as i can gather (thaksin is an ex-copper) and it was he was he who gave the order.

people like thaksin couldn't care less what happens to innocent poor people - they only care about their own profile, welath and power.

he is just using man city, and to the eternal shame of scudamore et al, it seems many in england would put footballing success above human life. shame on all of you. what has my country become.

Adamski, Bangkok,

What a joke this story is. Quoting the opion of the US State Department doesn't help your argument when the same american administration is involved in the practice of "Rendition", denying people their freedoms and right to fair trial.

If George W. Bush or Tony Blair were to buy YOUR club, would the same liberal toss stains be bleating about human rights abuses? Even though they have sent thousands of their countrymen to their deaths fighting a phoney war.

badlieutenant, Derby,

what a gutless response from Scudamore, translates as 'oh well if it's that serious then it's nothing to do with us'

Why are the FA so pathetic, why can't they get anything right? We deserve much better than this.

Owen, London, UK

How nice that another ousted dictator receives tax free sanctuary and all its benefits in the UK!

Robert, Macclesfield, Cheshire,

When he happened to found that there is a loop hole to manipulate the tax regulation and can let people sale theirs stocks with out paying tax, as a premiere, instead of fixing the regulation as its a nation's interest he used that loop hole for his own interest.

This is not the kind of leader that characterize by the norms of democracy.

ScaRECroW, Washington DC, USA

He is not a fit person,and the Media would serve Thailand greatly by looking into his behavior,in all his dealings generally.

Rick, Bangkok, Thailand

I'm hoping PM Gordon Brown appoints Dr Thaksin as 'drugs tsar' for the UK.Gordon is looking 'outside the box' for ' big brains' who can solve this nations ills . Dr Thaksin is just the man to get rid of these drug barons who have blighted this country for many years.
When he has done this he can go on and resolve similar issues in the US, but hey, A.I. and HRW will be concerned about the real criminals human rights.

Chapman, England, England

"ECONOMIC MIGHT SUPERCEDES HUMAN RIGHTS" - THIS is the governing principle that guides FAPPT.

WHY the criticism NOW when the papers have been inked? The LEADING human rights group should LEAD with criticism then when news of the impending buy by Taksin were in the open.

The League’s Fit and Proper Persons Test (FAPPT) is misnamed; and out of synch with global realities and issues. Don't these dinosaurs read The Times about Taksin, Thailand, hallo?

Anton Lyn, Guangzhou, China

"ECONOMIC MIGHT SUPERCEDES HUMAN RIGHTS" - that's the guiding principle the League’s Fit and Proper Persons Test (FAPPT) subscribes to.

Taksin and his family members alledgedly amass wealth (and/or use his position) during his tenure as Thai prime minister. FAPPT should have intervened to stop Taksin's buy until the former premier have been judged by the Thai's judicial system even though its administered by the military.

Innocent-man-until-proven-guilty in this particular case just don't cut it.

Anton Lyn, Guangzhou, China

I presume Hitler and Pol Pot with no convictions would also be 'fit and proper persons' under the Premier League's definition, but unfortunately Saddam Hussain's guilty verdict would rule him out of a chance at the chairmanship of Man Utd.

colin humphreys, fareham,

I will go with these human right's guys when someone acknowledges the 'Human rights of the victims of Drug abuse, and the 'Human right' of just being in a building when a plane hits it.... these do-gooder's really need to acknowledge that many of the people they condone and protect are simply the dross of society that are quite prepared to inflict harm, death and injury to humanity... in the name of anything they may believe in.
When people abuse and take away the human right of innocents.... their human right should be forfeited, they themselves destroyed it. But we have to listen to this rubbish that protects animals.

Brian Cummings, Manchester, England

Having trouble with the fact that the human rights violations were committed by the Thai army - who went on to oust the Prime Minister, and have since accused him of corruption.

I am also disturbed by the fact that human rights organisations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International don't seem to have picked up these facts. I find myself having to condemn them for their support of the military junta, rather than their prejudicial attack on the twice democratically elected ex-Prime minister.

Wigan Blue, Wigan, Lancs, England

You forgot Milosovic!

Ghost of 76, congleton,