Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has used very rough methods to control the media, which should be one of the most powerful watchdogs against corruption. For example during his fight against drugs, television news announced over and over again that the victims were killed as a result of gang feuds. In this war, actually, the police literally swept out the dealers from the streets. This was highly efficient in terms of reducing drug selling but offended naturally the concept of basic human rights. Everyone should be entitled a fair trial before conviction which has clearly not been the case during these measures that rose to the press titles latest when a little girl was killed during a pursuit along her drug dealing mother in Bangkok in the spring of 2003. Behind all this may be, among other things of course, the fear of corrupt buy outs during the tribunal handlings. Still it is questionable if this makes up with the killing of over 2000 people.