The incident stays one of many deadliest in Thailand’s long-running armed insurgency within the southern province.
Thailand says it is going to prosecute eight former safety personnel over the 2004 Tak Bai killings, by which 78 protesters have been arrested and stacked in navy vans and suffocated to dying.
The announcement by the Lawyer Common’s Workplace on Wednesday got here simply weeks earlier than the statute of limitations within the case expired on October 25, after a Thai courtroom final month accepted a associated grievance filed by the victims’ households towards seven former senior safety personnel.
“The suspects might have foreseen that their actions would result in the suffocation deaths of the 78 individuals of their cost,” Prayut Bejaguran, spokesman for the prosecutor basic, advised a information convention.
The incident stays one of many deadliest within the long-running battle in Thailand’s southern Muslim province. The protesters died after being arrested at a rally exterior a police station and stacked at the back of a Thai navy truck.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s authorities on the time expressed remorse for the deaths however denied wrongdoing.
In the meantime, police initially stated some protesters have been armed.
Greater than 7,600 individuals have been killed in roughly 20 years of unrest in Thailand’s predominantly Muslim province bordering Malaysia.
Thaksin’s daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra turned Thailand’s prime minister final month.
Final week, a Narathiwat courtroom summoned a former navy commander and issued arrest warrants for six retired senior safety personnel after they failed to look at a felony listening to on a grievance filed towards the household.
The commander is now a politician within the ruling Pheu Thai social gathering.
