Yesterday, on the 45th anniversary of the 1976 massacre at Bangkok’s Thammasat University, a lawyer-activist now says he plans to convey the perpetrators to the International Criminal Court. The Thammasat University graduate and Ratsadon group lawyer, Kritsadang Nutcharas, made a speech, calling for justice over the bloody crackdown on anti-government protests where police and military forces blocked the exits to the university before firing military-grade weapons at college students.
Officially, forty five individuals had been killed, some by lynching, however historians say the number of casualties was much larger. one hundred forty five folks have been injured and over 3,000 had been arrested.
The Bangkok Post says Kritsadang has been learning the bloodbath and believes the case can be taken to the ICC. Having occurred so way back though, it is onerous to discover out the chances of the bid being profitable.
No victims have ever obtained any compensation or apology for the events. Mr. Kritsadang is hoping that this case being heard may result in some long awaited justice for these victims. Additionally, he hopes that bringing consideration to these previous events might prevent something like that from taking place again.
“October 6 1976 was not a political accident nevertheless it was an intentional act by those that held energy at that time and needed to bloodbath college students who referred to as for freedom and democracy at the university.”
Former PM Chaturon Chaisang additionally made some remarks at a commemoration held inside the college yesterday. ติดตั้งโซล่าเซลล์บ้าน defined that this massacre occurred not simply because of the selections of some people, however was rooted in societal ideology. And he believes that the power construction that allowed the killings to take place nonetheless exists, and that the upper-class is largely answerable for what occurred.
“They did it by creating hatred in society against the scholars and poor folks and killed them violently… Such a thing still occurs in society right now.”
He went on to say that the Thai folks need to do whatever they can to make sure and defend their freedom of speech..