” NOT WORTH IT”
Seven people were killed when surveillance makes opened fire on a protest group outside a police station in Tak Bai, Narathiwat state, on October 25 that year, killing them.
After being arrested, 78 persons suffocated in the backseats of Thai military vehicles, facing down and holding their hands behind their backs.
A provincial court accepted a criminal case brought by survivors ‘ people against seven officials in August, which Amnesty International described as a” crucial first step toward justice.”
However, the officials, including a former army captain who was elected to parliament next month, have avoided court appearances, which has hindered the progress of the case.
The jury is scheduled to officially dismiss the allegations on Monday, putting an end to a situation that has become synonymous with impunity in a region flooded with army and police units and controlled by emergency laws.
Despite decades of allegations of crimes in the region, no part of the Thai safety makes has ever been imprisoned for extrajudicial killings or abuse in the “deep south.”
Parida Tohle, 72, lost her sole brother Saroj, 26, who was one of those who died in a vehicle.
Yet if defendants are never held responsible, she told AFP,” I may have settled for an apologies”.
In 2012, the government of then-prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra paid the families of each of the dead 7.5 million baht ( US$ 220, 000 ) in compensation.
” But, in exchange for my son’s life it was not worth it” , , Parida said,  ,