Tak Bai and Thai Justice

[jackspratt]

Another horrific event from Thailand's not too distant past about to be swept forever under the carpet.

Stuffed Into Trucks, 78 Thai Protesters Died. Their Killers Are Still Free.

Twenty years ago, a massacre in southern Thailand fueled an insurgency that has never stopped. If no one is prosecuted for it by Friday, no one ever will be.

.... On Oct. 25, 2004, at least 78 men from Thailand’s deep south died of suffocation, heat stroke and organ failure after security forces breaking up a protest stacked them onto trucks, Mr. Maliki among them. Seven others were shot to death by security forces outside the police station in the district of Tak Bai. Seven more remain missing.....
https://archive.ph/CGPZ4

[Bandung_Dero]

Get into the queue behind "Boss" and his killing of a police office, any number of political leaders with unanswered charges bought about in the red shirt era including the Swampy blockade etc.

Still pales into insignificance when compared with some of the crap we had to put up within our home countries. Isn't that why we are living here?

[tamada]

How about retired Lt General Pisan Wattanawongkiri, the former 4th Army Region commander at the time and a list MP for the ruling Pheu Thai Party until he resigned while in hiding abroad?

Pisan submitted a request for leave of absence from Parliament until October 30, claiming he requires medical treatment overseas. Handily ends after the statute of limitations.

How about the guy who signed off on Pisan's leave of absence to go abroad? Was he complicit?

How about Prawit who was army chief at the time?

How about Thaksin himself who was PM at the time.

Looks like Ung-ing has just asked (suggested) that the statute of limitations be extended for this case. With a little over 24-hours remaining, I think it's safe to say nothing will happen.