Human Rights Watch: Thailand: After 5 Years, No Justice for 2010 Violence
Military Commanders Untouchable, While Victims Arrested and Pressured Into Silence
May 18, 2015
(New York) тАУ Five years on, the Thai government has not prosecuted those responsible for the 2010 political violence in Thailand, Human Rights Watch said today. Despite overwhelming evidence that soldiers used excessive and unnecessary lethal force against protesters and others, not a single soldier has been held accountable for deaths or injuries during the crackdown on street protests.
From March to May 2010, political confrontations between the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), known as the тАЬRed Shirts,тАЭ and the government of then-Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, escalated into violence in Bangkok and several provinces. According to the Justice MinistryтАЩs Department of Special Investigation, at least 98 people lost their lives and more than 2,000 were injured.
тАЬThe failure of successive Thai governments to prosecute anyone from the military for the 2010 political violence sends a stark message of impunity,тАЭ said Brad Adams, Asia director. тАЬFully five years on, commanders who gave the orders to soldiers and those who pulled the triggers all remain untouchable.тАЭ..... (read more)....
http://m.hrw.org/node/135133