[1] Banjerd was a leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy, a group active in 2006 which attempted to bring down the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
[3]The Embassy of Israel protested in a letter to the Bangkok Post, the English-language newspaper which published Banjerd's statement.
Comparing Thaksin to Hitler shows ignorance or lack of knowledge of history.
It is also to ignore the actual fact that millions of people were murdered and suffered under the hands of the Nazi regime.
During the drafting process, Banjerd said in an interview: I personally believe in social structure and administration through traditions and customs that we once had in small communities.