Court rejects petition in Tak Bai case

The Criminal Court on Monday rejected a petition filed by relatives of people who died in the 2004 Tak Bai crackdown to it to revoke the Songkhla Provincial Court's ruling which cleared security forces of any wrongdoing in their handling of those held in custody.

Rassada Manurassada, a lawyer from the Lawyers Council of Thailand representing the relatives, said the rejection was made on the ground that the case had never been filed with the Criminal Court. The court stated that if the relatives of the killed wanted to petition against the order, they must do so with the Songkhla Provincial Court, not the Criminal Court.

Mr Rassada said the relatives will follow the court's order.

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BR>Jack

Any news on the emergency degree?

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How many policemen do you think were at the station when a couple of thousand angry muslims were "demonstrating" outside. I think it's a valid reason for police to shit their pants and call on the army, and that's when everything went downhill.

If there was an emergency degree in place, whatever the soldiers did next is excempt from prosecution.

Overall it was a far bigger political failure, the army MO was probably straight from the rule book - tie the hands, face on the ground. They do the same routine with refugees and farmers, too.

As long as people like you are around to readily make excuses for acts of pure evil than it will never stop.