Unhappy with Aung San Su Kyi’s criticism of Thailand’s constitution and politics, PAD-affiliated senator Prasong Nurak has urged the government to track her financial records to find whether she has received money and from whom.

During a Senate meeting on 26 April, Prasong said that Aung San Su Kyi’s remarks had damaged Thailand’s reputation in the eyes of the international community, likening her to a drowning person making noises in teaching others to swim.

‘I’m so disappointed, as Aung San Su Kyi should have had a better understanding about Thailand.  I’m asking [the government] to try to track her financial records to find out who she has received money from.’

Prasong is from Chumphon, and was a leader of the People’s Alliance for Democracy in Iowa, Kansas and Illinois during the protests against Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006.  He ran for a Senate seat in Chumphon in 2000, but failed.  Under the 2007 Constitution, he was appointed a Senator after nomination by the State Enterprise Labour Union of the Expressway Authority of Thailand.

He joined the group of 40 senators in supporting the PAD protests in 2008.  On 28 Aug 2008, two days after the PAD had occupied Government House, he and other senators, including Rosana Tositrakul, Somchai Sawangkan, Prasan Maruekapithak, Khamnoon Sitthisaman, etc., showed up at the government compound to give moral support to the yellow shirts.