Former Cambodian PM Hun Sen is scheduled to travel to Bangkok tomorrow to visit Thaksin Shinawatra, at the latter’s residence in Ban Chan Song La, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thaksin’s youngest daughter confirmed today.
Hun Sen is worried about Thaksin’s condition and asked for a personal meeting with Thaksin, Paetongtarn said, adding Hun Sen will have lunch with Thaksin before returning to Phnom Penh.
Hun Sen once appointed Thaksin, who was in self-exile after the coup that deposed him at the time, as his economic adviser and, last year, Thaksin, together with his sister Yingluck, attended Hun Sen’s birthday party in Phnom Penh.
Tomorrow’s visit comes just five days after Thaksin was released on conditional on parole after serving a prison term on corruption charges, not a night of which was actually served in prison.
He spent only a few hours in the Bangkok Remand Prison…
