Suthep implicates Tarit in red-shirt crackdown

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Suthep implicates Tarit in red-shirt crackdown

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Published: 29 Aug 2012 at 00.00
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Department of Special Investigation (DSI) chief Tarit Pengdith may be summoned for questioning over the Abhisit Vejjajiva administration's handling of the 2010 red-shirt protests.

Mr Tarit was implicated by former deputy prime minister Suthep Thaugsuban during the latter's 12-hour marathon questioning by the DSI, said DSI deputy chief Prawet Moolpramuk.

Based on Mr Suthep's statement, Mr Tarit, who served as a member of the now-defunct Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES), had suggested the invocation of a state of emergency if violence erupted, the investigator said.

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Discussion 32 : 31 Aug 2012 at 04.0232
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Discussion 31 brilliant : AV and Suthep are summonsed by DSI to give the testimonies. They must report to the DSI office as specified in the summons or they would be liable to prosecution under the relevant legislation. Their turn up at the DSI office is mandatory and is not subject to whether they are willing or not to do so.
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Discussion 31 : 29 Aug 2012 at 22.4131
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android - "This is a defacing interrogation for these two honourable dem MPs."

No, it was an honorable interrogation for these two honourable dem MPs. They willingly went in and willingly told their side of the situation. Too bad reds aren't willing to do the same.
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Discussion 30 : 29 Aug 2012 at 19.5430
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Suthep was questioned for about 12 hours and AV was grilled for seven hours. This is a defacing interrogation for these two honourable dem MPs.
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Discussion 29 : 29 Aug 2012 at 19.0529
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It's a shame how honest gov. officials are persecuted.
The real man behind the mayhem in 2010 are hiding as MPs and in ministries and in Dubai. Thailand is going backwards, by allowing 1 rich family tu run the gov. from behind the curtain.
As it was already doing so from 9.2.2001 to 19.9.2006.
It is a United front for Dictatorship and DemocraZy.
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Discussion 28 : 29 Aug 2012 at 18.1728
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D23 Surfer - so your eyes are so good you can see what the 100 people surrounding you did at the protests, so good you could what the 1000 people around were doing, so good that you could what the entire 10000 protestors were doing at all times. I can tell you from working concerts when I was at the university, when you are in a crowd, you can only see what your immediate neighbors are doing, you have no idea what the rest of the crowd is doing.

The fact that grenades came out of the crowd and killed people on the street outside the protests and that bullets came from the protests and killed and injured soldiers is pretty conclusive evidence that people within the UDD protesters WERE armed and engaging in attacks. I find the excuse that you didn't see anything personally and that no men in black were captured, proves nothing actually happened, to be laughable.
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Discussion 27 : 29 Aug 2012 at 18.0827
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Disc19: peterl

Did you even understand what you read ?. Suthep refused to accept it as evidence the army shot red-shirts because the clip didn't even show it.

BKP should have a poll : "Do you think the DSI investigation has a single objective which is to find the Abhisit government guilty ?".

This whole investgigation is so obviously biased, I feel embarassed for Thailand as I watch it unfold.
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Discussion 26 : 29 Aug 2012 at 17.3626
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Disc23 - " i can tell you i was at Ratchaprasong at this time and my eyes are very good, i did not see any weapons or grenades."
Well fortunately you aren't the only eye witness. BBC, Al Jazeera and France 24 all reported weapons being used against the military.
I watched Red Shirts firing at the soldiers in the live fire zone from the roof of my building on 3 consecutive nights. I also saw a grenade explode at Asoke junction on May 19th.
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Discussion 25 : 29 Aug 2012 at 17.0825
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#23..I was there too and you see what you want to see and because you could not be at multiple places where red violence erupted , it does not mean it did not happen. Like some denialist here say there were no MIB because they were not caught?? Ridiculous....but I can mail you my extremely well documented picture and video collection of red violent thugs, armed with all kinds of weapons and also the results of their actions!!!
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Discussion 24 : 29 Aug 2012 at 16.3024
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Disc19 Peterl - And what does this suggest, "Mr Suthep said 'Every order issued by the CRES was authorised by me.'"?
Does that seem unwilling to accept responsibility?

What it suggests to me is that Mr Tarit is not the right man to leading an investigation into an incident in which he was centrally involved.
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Discussion 23 : 29 Aug 2012 at 15.4323
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Disc16, "sponsored protesters are shooting and launching grenades", how you know that ? you was there ? i can tell you i was at Ratchaprasong at this time and my eyes are very good, i did not see any weapons or grenades.
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