absolutelyBangkok archive · Politics
Originally published Nov. 24, 2009
A year ago he was still going strong, Samak Sundaravej, dinosaur politician, cook, former prime minister.
Liver cancer. That’s how life can be. Our humble little tribute to the controversial firebrand is a video below I shot not too long before his demise.
A timely reminder that the old guard dies off slowly and there’s not much promising fresh blood moving up.
Samak, whose last grand ambition a year ago was to be at the helm during the funeral rites of HM the King’s sister Princess Galyani Vadhana, is now gone himself.
R.I.P., Samak Sundaravej, former prime minister of Thailand.
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