PUBLISHED: 30 Sep 2024 at 18: 31
According to Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai on Monday, a car bomb planted in the Tak Bai city of Narathiwat may be connected to the court case involving mass murder that will end in less than a month.
” It is possible”, he said when asked about the relationship. The Tak Bai event is attracting a lot of media attention because the statute of limitations expires on October 25.
Mr. Phumtham, who is also the defense secretary, claimed that investigators were attempting to determine whether the two circumstances were connected.
He advised residents of the frontier city to avoid the storm area for safety because security forces have tightened their plans in the wake of the explosion. They may have ID cards when they leave house, he added.
Two soldiers were hurt and the construction collapsed in the explosion that occurred at the city chief’s house on Sunday at 9:50pm. According to the Internal Security Operations Command’s southern front office, it likewise damaged some of the nearby properties.
Less than a fortnight before the famous court case will end, the bomb went out.
85 people died in the Tak Bai horror on October 25, 2004, 78 of whom were suffocated while being transported by troops trucks to the Pattani Ingkayutthaborihan tent in the Nong Chik district. The remainder passed away at the march site. In front of Tak Bai police station on that day, about 1, 000 activists gathered and demanded the transfer of six prisoners.
The Narathiwat Provincial Court has heard the jury case brought by victims of the large murder, either people or their families. One of the 14 accused is Gen Pisal Wattanawongkiri. He was formerly the commander of the Army Region 4 and a list-MP for the Pheu Thai Party.
All were required to notify the court that the event would begin on October 12th. None of them have yet to appear at the judge, not even Gen Pisal, whose movements are mysterious amid rumors that he had left the country.
Mr. Phumtham claimed last week that he did not know where Gen. Pisal was and that the media should give the storm issue more weight than the murder case.
Sunai Phasuk, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch in Thailand, posted an X message immediately after the bomb, informing readers of the possibility of a similar situation given that the case is nearer to its conclusion day. As the 20th year of the Tak Bai murder case draws to a close, he wrote,” It is a signal that #BRN is preparing to move up violent actions.”
The Barisan Revolusi Nasional secessionists were the subject of the human right defender’s mention.
On Sunday night in Narathiwat’s Tak Bai district, a car used to carry the bomb was fully damaged. ( Photo: Internal Security Operations Command via Abdullah Benjakat )