DSI charges Abhisit, Suthep

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Murder counts filed for 2010 rally killing

Published: 7 Dec 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has charged Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva and Democrat MP Suthep Thaugsuban for authorising the killing of anti-government protesters during the 2010 unrest in Bangkok.

DSI chief Tarit Pengdith announced the joint decision of a tripartite team of investigators from the DSI, police and prosecutors at a meeting Thursday.

The decision marks the first charges against members of the Abhisit administration over deaths during the mass rallies in Bangkok.

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Discussion 52 : 08 Dec 2012 at 11.3752
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truegrit 50 - "Also if a sniper was firing his gun they always hit their target"

"There are so many video clips on the Internet showing many soldiers using telescopic guns. This explains why almost 30 per cent of the deaths resulted from bullet wounds on their heads. And if combined with another 22 per cent who died from gunshot wounds on the chest, the figure is above 50 per cent. This is no shooting for self-defence [as claimed by the Abhisit government]." - TN, 3/09/2012

howell 51, do a google image search for 'Bullet holes at Democracy Monument'
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Discussion 51 : 08 Dec 2012 at 10.5851
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facts only. '..117,923 bullets were fired'. Complete nonsense ! Walls in BKK would be riddled with holes like Beirut etc, and thousands would have been killed.

Who does Somchai work for ?
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Discussion 50 : 08 Dec 2012 at 10.2150
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facts_only discussion 49. I like you facts but you left some important facts out. Is it not true the red shirts stole some guns, if the did they would also take the bullets. Also if a sniper was firing his gun they always hit their target unless they were ordered to fire over peoples heads which in this case is true. Why do you show facts to only show one side and not the whole story.
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Discussion 49 : 08 Dec 2012 at 09.5349
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howell 46,
"An army source said Gen Prayuth and the army chief of staff, Gen Dapong Rattanasuwan, were alarmed that so many bullets were fired. Pol Lt Col Somchai said that of the 3,000 sniper bullets taken out of armouries, only 480 were returned. About 50,000 bullets for M1 rifles, which are used in ambush operations, were withdrawn from arsenals for the operations. After the operations, 45,158 of them were returned. According to Pol Lt Col Somchai, altogether 597,500 bullets were taken out of army arsenals and 479,577 returned. That meant that altogether, 117,923 bullets were fired, he told the House." - BangkokPost, March 25, 2011
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Discussion 48 : 08 Dec 2012 at 02.1448
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Disc 37 You wrote "Clearly looking at the balance of likes and dislikes for each comment the Abhisit lovers are in the majority in this forum, not really surprising any Thai who can write English will probably be a member of the elite, and most Farangs here will associate with such people"
Very ignorant to say IMO. You rally when a poster writes that the north are not educated but when someone expresses an opion here, which is what this is meant for, you write that they must be elite.
How many of YOUR PTP/UDD have bank accounts over millions of baht in them?
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Discussion 47 : 07 Dec 2012 at 21.4047
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@facts only. '"The first bloodshed occurred on 10 April when at least four soldiers...were killed'.

Right and by who ? Self declared peaceful and unarmed protesters who just happened to have RPG's etc and who fired first. Had they been in London, NY, Madrid, anywhere, they would (and should have) received massive retaliation with possibly 100's dead.
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Discussion 46 : 07 Dec 2012 at 21.1246
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@Disc 41 'Not counting the snipers cranked of thousands of rounds'.

If that were true then thousands of people would have been killed.
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Discussion 45 : 07 Dec 2012 at 21.1045
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englishbob 43 - "'Such care' was clearly demonstrated in the fact that months went by and non-lethal methods were tried"
First mass protest began night of April 8th, 2009. Soldiers cleared the protest on morning of April 9th, 2009. Two red shirts dead.

Second protest began March 14, 2010. Military crackdowns 3 weeks, and again 8 weeks later: "The first bloodshed occurred on 10 April when at least four soldiers and 17 civilians were killed in clashes as the army tried to disperse the red-shirts...On 19 May armed government troops moved into the red-shirt camp..." - BBC, 13 July 2012

The PAD occupied government house for 3 months.
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Discussion 44 : 07 Dec 2012 at 18.4244
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Thai Criminal Code, for reference:

"In case of any offence is accrued by commission of the person as from two persons upwards, such accomplices deemed to be principals shall be punished as provided by the law for such offence." s83

"Whoever, whether by employment, compulsion, threat, hire, asking as favor or instigation, or by any other means, causes another person to commit any offence is said to be an instigator..." s84

"Whoever, murdering the other person, shall be imprisoned by death or imprisoned as from fifteen years to twenty years." s288
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Discussion 43 : 07 Dec 2012 at 14.4243
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Disc29 Just Quotes...
""...To commit an act by negligence is to commit an offence unintentionally but without exercising such care as might be expected from a person under such condition and circumstances, and the doer could exercise such care but did not do so sufficiently. An act shall also include any consequence brought about by the omission to do an act which must be done in order to prevent such consequence."

Perfect. Abhisit's defence has been made. 'Such care' was clearly demonstrated in the fact that months went by and non-lethal methods were tried and met with extreme violence and hostility at the hands of UDD.
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