The incident stays one of many deadliest within the long-running armed revolt in Thailand’s southern provinces.
Thailand has stated it’ll prosecute eight former safety personnel over the 2004 Tak Bai killings by which 78 protesters suffocated after they have been arrested and piled on high of one another in military vehicles.
Wednesday’s announcement from the lawyer basic’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 individuals below their duty,” lawyer basic spokesperson Prayut Bejaguran informed a information convention.
The incident stays one of many deadliest within the long-running conflict 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 high of one another behind Thai army vehicles.
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 individuals 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 look at a prison listening to over the grievance filed by the households.
The commander is now a politician with the ruling Pheu Thai Celebration.
