Journalist puts troops in clear

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King's Guard did not kill civilians, witness says

Published: 19 Mar 2013 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

A French journalist insisted yesterday that a military unit which he followed during the army's crackdown on red-shirt protesters in 2010 was not responsible for the deaths of six people at Wat Pathumwanaram.

Olivier Rotrou, 48, owner of Line Press photography company in France, has returned to Thailand to testify on March 28 at an inquest into the temple deaths.

Speaking to the Bangkok Post yesterday, Rotrou said he could not tell if the six deaths were caused by other soldiers or the so-called "men in black". He could only confirm it was not the work of the King's Guard Infantry Unit of the Third Regiment, which he had followed on the day of the crackdown.

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joninnak
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Discussion 3 : 19 Mar 2013 at 13.053
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Contrarian The MIB were not a red herring They were TRUE TRUE TRUE. Plenty of video to prove it
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Discussion 2 : 19 Mar 2013 at 10.172
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"Speaking to the Bangkok Post yesterday, Rotrou said he could not tell if the six deaths were caused by other soldiers or the so-called "men in black".

People very close to me were in that temple.

What they experienced and saw was very clear.

Whereas the journalist "...could not tell if the six deaths were caused by other soldiers..", they could.

And trying the old PAD-Dem red herring diversion to MIB, is an unconscionable affront to the Demonstrators and relatives of those who were killed by this coupist instigated military attack.
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Discussion 1 : 19 Mar 2013 at 07.471
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Troops may/maybe not in the "clear" but what is not "clear" is why this
experienced photo journalist appears, from nowhere, 3 years later.
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