Due to the expiration of the statute of limitations next month, the court tries to keep the slaughter case intact.
Described: 12 Sep 2024 at 20: 20
Six accused in the Tak Bai murder event in 2004 have been ordered on arrest warrants from the Narathiwat Criminal Court after failing to turn up for questioning on Thursday.
Seven defendants were scheduled to appear in court for see questioning and facts examination, but none of them made it.
A request has been issued for the sixth accused, past Army Region 4 chief Gen Pisal Wattanawongkiri. He is now a list-MP for the Pheu Thai Party, which protects him.
Human rights activists are concerned that additional disruptions could result in the case being thrown out after working for years to provide a case before a judge. On October 25, the case’s 20-year statute of limitations expires.
For handling a 2004 show in the Tak Bai in the southern province of Narathiwat, those responsible for the event are accused of murder and immoral confinement. In addition to the seven demonstrators killed by gunfire, 78 more were crushed or suffocated as they lay piled on top of each other in military trucks.
Thaksin Shinawatra, the then-prime secretary, apologised for the murder but shied away from accepting responsibility. No one has ever been charged with the murders.
The petition, launched by the people of 48 of the sufferers, was accepted by the court in August.
” If the accused do n’t show up at the next hearing, the court will likely have more measures so the justice process can continue”, said Rassada Manurassada, one of the lawyers for the victims ‘ families.
One of the deadliest situations in a dissident insurgency that erupted again in the same year and has since claimed the lives of more than 7,600 people was during the onslaught in Tak Bai, which took place while the area was under martial law.  ,
Imprisonment warrants have been issued for the following: Maj Gen Chaloemchai Wirunpetch, a former 5th Infantry Division captain, Pol Gen Wongkot Maneejan, a former chairman of the operations center of the Royal Thai Police before company, Pol Lt Gen Manoj Kraiwong, a former commander of Provincial Police Region 9, Pol Maj Gen Saksommai Phutthakul, a former director of the Tak Bai authorities station, Siwa Saengmanee, a former deputy director of the Southern Border Provinces Peace Centre, and Wichom Thongsong, a former Narathiwat governor.
The defendants were permitted to appear in court without the consent of the Muslim Attorney Center Foundation, according to U-seng Dolah, the defendants ‘ lawyer, to request that their appearance be postponed until the statute of limitations is imposed.
The court issued the warrants and demanded that they be detained before the case is over, to keep the legal process moving forward, but no one showed up.
Wan Muhamad Noor Matha, the speaker of the house, claimed he had not received the court’s petition for Gen Pisal, who is scheduled to go on trial in the Narathiwat Criminal Court on October 15.