The red shirt movement will lobby the government to either review the Truth for Reconciliation Commission (TRC) final report or shelve it, saying the 351-page document is biased and likening it to a poison.
Tida Tawornseth, chairwoman of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), told a press conference on Friday that the report was partial because some people who had "negative attitudes" toward the UDD had been appointed to the TRC subcommittee.
She said, for example, that Metha Meskow had once worked in the Democratic campaign committee, which was allied with the yellow-shirt People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD). He also had close ties with Suriyasai Katasila, a former PAD coordinator, she added.
She also mentioned another subcommittee member identified as Chaiwat Treewittaya, a leader of PAD security guards, saying that Kanit Na Nakorn, the TRC chairman, had known about this.
Sathit Pitutecha, a Democrat MP for Rayong, countered that the UDD should put the best interests of the country first.
The Pheu Thai-led government should also keep its promise that it would support Mr Kanit's efforts to find out the truth about the violence during the red-shirt protests in April and May 2010, to bring about reconciliation, he added.
Mr Sathit said that if the red-shirts reject the TRC report and keep on moving against its recommendations, the political and social conflict would never end and that could lead to severe damage to the country.
The red-shirts should allow the justice system to rule on which parties were right or wrong in connection with the bloodshed, he added.
Mrs Tida said she would soon meet with Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit, who chairs a committee following up the progress of work resulting from the TRC's recommendations.
She said she hoped Mr Yongyuth’s committee would decide which advice offered by the committee should be followed or which should be ignored or corrected.
She would propose the committee to either set up a new committee to verify and revise the TRC report, especially the fact-finding study on the 2010 crackdown, or ignore it and leave the search for truth in the hands of the court system.
She singled out the Criminal Court’s Monday ruling that government forces were responsible for the death of a taxi driver on Ratchaprarop road on May 15, 2010 during the height of the protests as a precedent.
"I reiterate that the red shirts will not accept this report because it has been distorted, is not transparent, and it slandered the red shirts while creating [justification] for government forces to use violence to crack down on people," she said.
"This report is like a poison."
The UDD will submit its dissenting opinions in English to embassies, the media and international organisations to show that Thai people disagree with the report on the grounds that it did not lead to national reconciliation, but would worsen social divisions, she added.