The incident stays one of many deadliest within the long-running armed insurrection in Thailand’s southern provinces.
Thailand has stated it can prosecute eight former safety personnel over the 2004 Tak Bai killings wherein 78 protesters suffocated after they have been arrested and piled on prime of one another in military vans.
Wednesday’s announcement from the lawyer common’s workplace comes simply weeks earlier than the expiry of the statute of limitations of the case on October 25 and after a Thai court docket final month accepted a associated grievance towards seven former senior safety personnel filed by the victims’ households.
“The suspects may have foreseen that their actions would have led to the suffocation and deaths of the 78 folks below their accountability,” lawyer common spokesperson Prayut Bejaguran instructed a information convention.
The incident stays one of many deadliest within the long-running battle in Thailand’s predominantly Muslim southern provinces. The protesters died after they have been arrested at a rally exterior a police station after which stacked on prime of one another at the back of Thai army vans.
The federal government on the time, below Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, expressed remorse on the deaths however denied wrongdoing.
Police, in the meantime, initially stated some protesters have been armed.
Greater than 7,600 folks have been killed in some 20 years of unrest in Thailand’s predominantly Muslim provinces bordering Malaysia.
Thaksin’s daughter, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, turned Thailand’s prime minister final month.
Final week, a Narathiwat court docket summoned a former army commander and issued arrest warrants for six retired senior safety personnel after they failed to seem at a felony listening to over the grievance filed by the households.
The commander is now a politician with the ruling Pheu Thai Social gathering.
