PUBLISHED: 4 Oct 2024 at 05: 58
In connection with the case involving the Tak Bai massacre in 2004, the Narathiwat municipal court has issued an arrest warrant for Pheu Thai Party listing MP Gen Pisal Wattanawongkiri.
The Cross Cultural Foundation announced on Thursday that the subjects ‘ attorneys had requested an arrest warrant for Tuesday.
The base is officially representing the households of the 85 people who died on October 25, 2004, when the Fourth Place Army dispersed protesters in Narathiwat’s Tak Bai area.
Gen Pisal, a former leader of the Fourth Army Place, was originally summoned to a trial, but he was shielded from legal action by his political resistance.
But, House Speaker Wan Muhamad Noor Matha claimed that the 2017 law allows the court to indict Gen Pisal as long as the legal proceeding does not tamper with the MP’s legislative jobs.
Gen Pisal failed to respond to his call, leading to the arrest warrant.
The 74-year-old now finds himself among seven accused being prosecuted on a number of claims for allegedly colluding to death the 85 activists, said the base.
Gen Pisal ruled in favor of the peaceful distribution of the demonstration and issued an emergency order at the opposition site, where seven demonstrators died at the time of the protest. 1, 000 activists were piled up in many layers on top of one another in 25 martial vehicles, and 78 more died from asphyxia or organ failure. In this manner, they were transported 140 kilometers away from Pattani’s Ingkhayutthaborihan defense station.
However, People’s Party record MP Rangsiman Rome claimed on Thursday that the government was trying to shop the Tak Bai trial by preventing the suspects from going on trial until the court’s 20-year statute of limitations expires on October 25.
He claimed that the government is conducting this to prevent an important official from being identified in a court hearing of testimony as the true suspect in the murder.
People now hold the impression that you and your political party want to end the case by allowing witnesses to be heard because their testimony may lead to the prosecution’s bigger name, wo n’t they? said Mr Rangsiman.
According to Phumtham Wechayachai, vice prime minister and defense minister, the inquiry appears to have been intended to discredit the state and its alleged “important man.”
In fact, this circumstance is undergoing the judicial procedure involving different sides, including authorities, prosecutors, and the judge, Mr Phumtham said. He claimed that the government is doing its part by accelerating the police’s effort to bring charges against offenders in court.
Bring it out to show your state that the authorities are dragging their feet if you ever have any. Do n’t just come to terms with things and make a baseless accusation of them,” he said.