Vigils to Mark 2010 Crackdown

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Portraits of 2010 crackdown victims are displayed Saturday during a religious ceremony at a temple in Bang Khen district.

 

BANGKOK — Pro-democracy activists are set on Saturday to join families of those who died in a 2010 military crackdown marking the eighth year since the bloodshed which killed nearly 100 people.

 

In the afternoon, the victims’ families will hold a religious merit-making ceremony dedicated to their memories at Ratchaprasong Intersection, a shopping district occupied by Redshirt protesters for a month before they were dispersed by soldiers on May 19, 2010.

 

Activists from various groups will then hold a candlelit vigil, lay red roses and read poems in front of the nearby Amarin Plaza shopping mall.

 

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"...Vigils to Mark 2010 Crackdown..."

 

If I were the headline writer, I would have said;

 

"...Vigils to Mark 2010 Slaughter..."

 

But, that is just me...

 

Sad, sad day.

R.I.P. good people.