Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's
office on Wednesday, posting
offensive comments in the latest
attack on her character.
The words "I'm a slutty moron"
appeared briefly alongside a picture of
a smiling Yingluck, followed by "I
know that I am the worst Prime
Minister ever in Thailand history!!!". It
was signed by "Unlimited Hack
Team".
The government quickly shut down the
website and warned the perpetrators
they faced tough punishment if
caught.
"It might have been done by some
teenagers or maybe it was for political
purposes," said the prime minister's
secretary-general, Suranand Vejjajiva.
"Hacking a website is easy but don't
forget that checking who did it is not
hard either," he told reporters.
"If we find them, they will be charged
under the computer crime act," he
said, referring to a contentious law
that rights groups say is sometimes
used to muzzle online dissent.
The incident comes days after
Yingluck filed a defamation case
against a cartoonist for allegedly
comparing her to a prostitute on his
Facebook page.
Chai Rachawat, a cartoonist for a
prominent daily newspaper, posted
pictures of Yingluck accompanied by
the words " a prostitute is not an evil
person, the hooker only sells body. But
an evil woman sells the nation".
His post apparently took aim at the
premier's appearance at a democracy
forum a day earlier in Mongolia where
she gave an unusually fiery speech
condemning the 2006 coup that
toppled her brother Thaksin as
premier.
Since then debate has flared over
what is an acceptable level of criticism
of the premier, who won a landslide
election victory in 2011, becoming
Thailand's first female premier.
The kingdom has been riven by
political divisions since the 2006 coup,
with a series of rival street protests.
About 90 people were killed and
nearly 1,900 were wounded during
mass pro-Thaksin rallies in Bangkok in
2010, mostly during a military
crackdown.
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