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Man City boss accused of human rights abuses

31/07/2007

The new owner of Manchester City football club has been publicly accused of human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings.

Human Rights Watch believes that Thaksin Shinawatra, who bought the club earlier this month, should not have passed the Premier League's 'fit and proper person' test.

The organisation has written to the league to express its concerns, among which are that Thaksin allegedly presided over extrajudicial killings during Thailand's so-called war on drugs.

He is also accused of telling the Thai military to employ any means possible to suppress an insurgency in the south of the country, the BBC has reported.

Thaksin, who was ousted from the government in a bloodless coup last year, has denied the allegations.

His lawyer, Noppadol Pattama, told BBC Sport that the allegations were totally unfounded.

But Amnesty International has echoed Human Rights Watch's concerns and said that Thaksin presided over serious human rights violations in Thailand.

Thaksin is currently being investigated by corruption officials in his home country and recently had more than £1 billion of his assets frozen.


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