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He chairs the committee in charge.

Sanan's answers to the reporters' questions weren't exactly quotable quotes, and so they haven't been reported. Here's a sample:

What if there is violence?

We have a law to take care of wrongdoers.

What's the penalty?

It shouldn't be too harsh. We might just take any offenders away from the scene. But they won't go missing like lawyer Somchai [the human-rights defender believed abducted and killed by political enemies].

Is there a name for your contingency plan?

Let's call it the Se Plan.

Have you heard about the leaflets attacking Prem Tinsulanonda?

I don't really know. I'm from Phichit province.

Chuan Leekpai had raised the leaflet topic earlier. He and Prem are southerners; Phichit is in the North.

If you were a reporter, what would you have done? You'd give your head a shake and hand your editor a story based on only useful information. So it was no wonder that, when Soopsip checked all the news reports from the press conference, not one quoted Sanan.