Tak Bai 3 Years On

[marshbags]

Perspective >> Sunday November 04, 2007

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A LONG TIME COMING

Three years after the infamous Tak Bai incident, not a single official has faced punishment. Victims and relatives are forced to wait on a new round of court hearings late next year in their quest for justice, writes SUPARA JANCHITFAH

October 25 this year was much different from the two previous anniversaries of the infamous incident which left Mariki Dorloh seriously disabled. One of his legs has been amputated and his two hands struggle to hold onto anything.

"Last year, I did not want to think about the Tak Bai incident, but this year I was actually a little excited," said Mariki, 30, who was among 1, 298 men rounded up from a demonstration in front of the Tak Bai police station in Narathiwat province on that day in 2004 and "transported" to Inkhayuthaboriharn military camp in Pattani province. The detainees were loaded horizontally by soldiers onto military trucks, stacked in many levels.

Mariki related that he, like many other men, had been arrested merely for being curious about what was going on in front of the police station. He had been on the way to a local market.

In the harsh crackdown of the protest over the demand to release six village volunteer suspects who were accused of giving state-owned weapons to militants, six men were killed immediately and another died in hospital. A total of 78 persons died on the military trucks during transport and many more were injured, a number of those, like Mariki, severely.

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Yet another much publicised and documented horror story of the last adminstration and it,s CEO in exile.

Should he return this and other outstanding H.R. issues that happened on his watch along with his personal overseeing of them, are a priority above all others to be addressed, for humanitarian reasons and the ongoing suffering of all the victims.

IMHO, as always

marshbags and

Please edit if this is duplicated elsewhere with apologies for missing it.

Edited November 4, 2007 by marshbags

[Bangyai]

Perspective >> Sunday November 04, 2007

Quote:-

A LONG TIME COMING

Three years after the infamous Tak Bai incident, not a single official has faced punishment. Victims and relatives are forced to wait on a new round of court hearings late next year in their quest for justice, writes SUPARA JANCHITFAH

October 25 this year was much different from the two previous anniversaries of the infamous incident which left Mariki Dorloh seriously disabled. One of his legs has been amputated and his two hands struggle to hold onto anything.

"Last year, I did not want to think about the Tak Bai incident, but this year I was actually a little excited," said Mariki, 30, who was among 1, 298 men rounded up from a demonstration in front of the Tak Bai police station in Narathiwat province on that day in 2004 and "transported" to Inkhayuthaboriharn military camp in Pattani province. The detainees were loaded horizontally by soldiers onto military trucks, stacked in many levels.

Mariki related that he, like many other men, had been arrested merely for being curious about what was going on in front of the police station. He had been on the way to a local market.

In the harsh crackdown of the protest over the demand to release six village volunteer suspects who were accused of giving state-owned weapons to militants, six men were killed immediately and another died in hospital. A total of 78 persons died on the military trucks during transport and many more were injured, a number of those, like Mariki, severely.

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Yet another much publicised and documented horror story of the last adminstration and it,s CEO in exile.

Should he return this and other outstanding H.R. issues that happened on his watch along with his personal overseeing of them, are a priority above all others to be addressed, for humanitarian reasons and the ongoing suffering of all the victims.

IMHO, as always

marshbags and

Please edit if this is duplicated elsewhere with apologies for missing it.

Yes, lest we forget the darker side of life in Thailand its worth reminding people. For video footage of this incident see You Tube ' Thai Military assault on unarmed 85 deaths ' Is always sad to think that the ordinary privates are just conscripts from the poorer people in Thailand. You would not think the average Joe could be so effectively dehumanised. And Taksin tried to defend the military after this event. And yet when Taksin is called up before the courts ( with the military giving the nod for the go ahead ) its on corruption charges rather than human rights issues. Taksin may go into exile but the people pulling the strings are not moving.

[Bangyai]

Perspective >> Sunday November 04, 2007

Quote:-

A LONG TIME COMING

Three years after the infamous Tak Bai incident, not a single official has faced punishment. Victims and relatives are forced to wait on a new round of court hearings late next year in their quest for justice, writes SUPARA JANCHITFAH

October 25 this year was much different from the two previous anniversaries of the infamous incident which left Mariki Dorloh seriously disabled. One of his legs has been amputated and his two hands struggle to hold onto anything.

"Last year, I did not want to think about the Tak Bai incident, but this year I was actually a little excited," said Mariki, 30, who was among 1, 298 men rounded up from a demonstration in front of the Tak Bai police station in Narathiwat province on that day in 2004 and "transported" to Inkhayuthaboriharn military camp in Pattani province. The detainees were loaded horizontally by soldiers onto military trucks, stacked in many levels.

Mariki related that he, like many other men, had been arrested merely for being curious about what was going on in front of the police station. He had been on the way to a local market.

In the harsh crackdown of the protest over the demand to release six village volunteer suspects who were accused of giving state-owned weapons to militants, six men were killed immediately and another died in hospital. A total of 78 persons died on the military trucks during transport and many more were injured, a number of those, like Mariki, severely.

Unquote.

For the full article please go to the ref. url

<a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/Perspective/04Nov2007_pers001.php" target="_blank">http://www.bangkokpost.com/Perspective/04Nov2007_pers001.php</a>

Yet another much publicised and documented horror story of the last adminstration and it,s CEO in exile.

Should he return this and other outstanding H.R. issues that happened on his watch along with his personal overseeing of them, are a priority above all others to be addressed, for humanitarian reasons and the ongoing suffering of all the victims.

IMHO, as always

marshbags and

Please edit if this is duplicated elsewhere with apologies for missing it.

Well, the results are out and no surprises. As Bangkok Pundit points out, Tak Bai was in October 2004 but the state of emergancy didn't come into force until July 2005 ??

A bit confusing if the security forces were cleared of wrongdoing as they were acting under the Emergancy decree.? Maybe things will be clarified by the media

[justanothercybertosser]

Yet another much publicised and documented horror story of the last adminstration and it,s CEO in exile.

Should he return this and other outstanding H.R. issues that happened on his watch along with his personal overseeing of them, are a priority above all others to be addressed, for humanitarian reasons and the ongoing suffering of all the victims.

IMHO, as always

marshbags and

Please edit if this is duplicated elsewhere with apologies for missing it.

And when do you begin accusing the military, the judiciary and this government for continuing to obfuscate and legitimize the Human Rights violations you only hold Thaksin and nobody else responsible for?

[Denim]

So what happens now or is that it...I heard that relatives were going to appeal or something ?

[sriracha john]

Activist seeks justice for Tak Bai victims

Relatives offered help to take legal action

Human rights and justice advocate Angkhana Neelaphaijit is offering to help relatives of people who died in the 2004 Tak Bai massacre if they decide to take legal action against the authorities in charge of the crackdown. Ms Angkhana, the Chairwoman of the Working Group for Justice and Peace, is working with lawyers to study grounds for pursuing criminal or civil action.

They will obtain a copy of the ruling on Friday by the Songkhla provincial court which found seven demonstrators had died outside the Tak Bai police station in Narathiwat during a crackdown by authorities on Oct 25, 2004. The court also found that another 78 demonstrators had suffocated in military trucks en route to an army camp in neighbouring Pattani.

Ms Angkhana said a legal avenue was open to relatives who could file criminal and civil action against the authorities. The court, she pointed out, did not consider the findings of a government-appointed independent inquiry conducted in December 2004. The panel headed by Ombudsman Pichet Sunthornpipit said the deployment of soldiers to contain the Tak Bai protest was a proper response to an emergency at hand. However, the method of breaking up the protest was improper and did not conform to international standards.

Continued:

-- Bangkok Post 2009-06-01

[Mario2008]

This news is already being discussed here: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Thai-Officia...ths-t23141.html

I therefor close this topic and ask you to post further responses there.