We try to avoid violence but we are there to negotiate : Justice Minister

However the minister did not say how. He said that the officers of both agencies together with soldiers are allowed by the laws to enter the temple in a bid to find the fugitive former abbot; Phra Dhammachayo.
In an interview via Facebook Live with Suthichai Yoon, Suwaphan said that what the law enforcement agencies are doing now was not "negotiation" with the temple.

"We are not there to negotiate or to take the temple's conditions and consider them. We are there to enforce the laws," he said. However every party involved will avoid violence and be patient.

Police will summon the temple's leaders again as they failed to report themselves to police If they resist, they could face arrest warrants as allowed by the laws.

He said he did not know whether the former abbot is still in the temple and he did not have the deadline for the authorities' operations concerning the temple case.