GehtsoMay 3, 2025

Gunman kills 3 in Thailand's insurgency-hit south, including 9-year-old girl

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/gunman-kills-3-thailand-narathiwat-5106506

#Thailand #TakBai #religious #separatists #terror

Gunman kills 3 in Thailand's insurgency-hit south, including 9-year-old girl

BANGKOK: A gunman has shot dead three people including a child in Thailand's insurgency-hit south, police said Saturday (May 3), as authorities pursued the suspect. The attacker opened fire late Friday in a residential area of Tak Bai district in Narathiwat province, one of three Muslim-majority provinces

CNA
7sleepersmusicOct 25, 2024
“You’re not going to heal, you’re not going to be able to move on as a nation if you can’t settle this. How do you put this behind you? You have to be fair, you have to be honest, and you have to do it keeping in mind … human dignity, and right now I don’t see any of that.” #TakBai #Thailand #Asia #HumanRights cc: @VOANews https://www.voanews.com/a/hopes-for-justice-expire-20-years-after-thailand-s-tak-bai-massacre/7839297.html
Hopes for justice expire 20 years after Thailand’s Tak Bai Massacre

The statute of limitations has run out for prosecution of 14 security forces accused in the 2004 incident in which 85 protesters died

Voice of America (VOA News)
Joseph Lim Aug 29, 2024
"It must be noted tt Narathiwat Prov'cial Court's decision to hear e case comes just b4 e 20yr #statuteoflimitation ends on Oct 24. Lest we forget, #TakBai incident took place during #ThaksinShinawatra's #government led by his Thai Rak Thai & when #Prawit Wongsuwon was #army chief. Tt said, e current govt led by his daughter has e opportunity to do better by ensur'g trial is transparent.. caution #security officials to revise their security operations & act w'in e #law" ⚖️
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2855038/overdue-trial-for-tak-bai
Overdue trial for Tak Bai

<p>The decision by <strong>Narathiwat </strong>Provincial Court to hear a lawsuit against seven high-ranking officials accused of murdering protesters in the <strong>Tak Bai</strong> incident two decades ago is a milestone for efforts to eradicate the culture of impunity in Thai society.</p>

Bangkok Post
Joseph Lim May 17, 2024
20 years later, time for justice for #TakBai
"7 deaths at the site & 78 more during the transport of 1,370 #protesters .. each lorry had to take almost 50 protesters for 5 hours fr the protest site to #Pattani camp.. The demonstrators were ordered to lie w their heads down & were packed in 3 or 4 piles deep.. The case will be a test for #justice for #PheuThai .. The #massacre took place when Thaksin Shinawatra was PM as his govt #failed to restore peace in the far South."
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2793839/20-years-later-time-for-justice-for-tak-bai
20 years later, time for justice for Tak Bai

Time flies. But it doesn't fly fast enough for security officers responsible for the Tak Bai massacre almost two decades ago.

Bangkok Post
Show threadJoseph Lim Mar 18, 2024
"Thaksin, then #primeminister, quickly branded the robbers "small-time crooks", which can't have improved things. If he had been more prudent, the #KrueSe #mosque & #TakBai #massacres in April 2004 & October of the same year, in which 32 & 85 #Thai #Muslims died, respectively, might have played out differently or even been avoided. Although he did not directly gave orders for the #military #crackdowns in those cases, #Thaksin, as head of the #government, must bear some #responsibility" #Thailand