Seh Daeng case to be re-opened

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Published: 13/01/2012 at 05:31 PM
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Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung on Friday ordered a reopening of the investigation into the assassination of leading red-shirt member Khattiya Sawatdiphol, widely known as Seh Daeng.

Khattiya Sawatdiphol, aka Seh Daeng (Photo by Apichart Jinakul)

Mr Chalerm said he had ordered police investigators to dust off Maj Gen Khattiya’s case dossier because new evidence had emerged.

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banmebkk
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Discussion 15 : 14/01/2012 at 02:04 PM15
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Thought the PTP has evidence of who burned down central world, who killed the foreign reporters, who killed Seh Daeng since last year. Chalerm is becoming the next Jatuporn, the boy who cried wolf.
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Discussion 14 : 14/01/2012 at 01:20 PM14
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New evidence? its nothing new, it was widely reported that the shooter was located on the Dusit Thani Hotel side from the very beginning. There was no way he could have been shot from Chulalongkorn Hospital as there is a overpass bridge and the hospital is not high enough to give the shooter an angle of where Seh Daeng was standing.
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Discussion 13 : 14/01/2012 at 08:11 AM13
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Lets see now ... how many times have members of the PTP claimed they had new evidence that would prove wrong doing by others ... how many times has this evidence actually been seen ... how many people were arrested and convicted as a result ... several hundred times for the first, a big ZERO for the later two.
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Discussion 12 : 13/01/2012 at 11:06 PM12
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John F. Kennedy's case is not yet resolved, despite hundreds of theories.
Saeh Daeng's case will be lilely alike.
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Discussion 11 : 13/01/2012 at 10:36 PM11
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I saw some of these men in black, and they were not alleged working police officers. Remember the police were sympathetic to the red shirts, and refused to arrest them for anything they were doing in Bangkok. I watched them let demonstrators try to burn up a bus at the corner of Sukhumvit, and Asoke. The police just directed traffic around the criminal actions of the demonstrators trying to tourch the bus.

It is also very easy for the forensics evidence to tell exactly where the shots came from, exactly. There is no new evidence to disprove forensics in this case of where the bullets came from. It is a very exact science in a case like this.
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Discussion 10 : 13/01/2012 at 08:17 PM10
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Yawn.

The killer is known. Seh Daeng knew who was going to get him. He mentioned that it would be the "ring knockers" who would bring him down.

If anyone understands this clear military reference, it's obvious where the killer came from.
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Discussion 9 : 13/01/2012 at 06:56 PM9
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@disc #2...I'll bring one case too
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Discussion 8 : 13/01/2012 at 06:19 PM8
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This sounds like political payback. The killers, whoever they are, need to be brought to justice and a thorough understanding of the reasoning behind the assassination and who gave the orders.
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Discussion 7 : 13/01/2012 at 06:14 PM7
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Anyone following this story will need Dramamine, the spin will be intense!
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Discussion 6 : 13/01/2012 at 05:52 PM6
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And we know that the "men in black" might just as likely have been members of Seh Daeng's own militia. There has always been speculation that he was "silenced" because he was talking too much.
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