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En bra artikel i Bangkok Post om Demokraternas försök tvätta sitt eget byk genom att försöka flytta fokus ifrån den f.d regeringen och militären övergrepp som nu utreds till männen i svart.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/317002/dems-whitewashing-own-guilt-for-2010-crackdown
Dems 'whitewashing own guilt' for 2010 crackdown
The Democrat Party's rally on Saturday highlighting the role of the "men in black" in the 2010 political violence has angered red shirt sympathisers and human rights activists.
The opposition party's attempt to highlight the role of the men in black was an indirect attempt to whitewash its own guilt in the fatal crackdown on anti-government protesters, said one red shirt supporter.
Chaiwat Trakarnratsanti, a member of Social Move, a leftist group, said it was ridiculous that the Democrats, who had ordered the crackdown against the protesters that resulted in nearly 100 deaths, were trying every means available to divert public attention away from their own guilt. "The Democrats are legitimising their use of excessive violence against the people. They think emphasising the presence of the armed men in black will erase the fact from the people's memory that it was the Democrat-led government that gave the crackdown order," said Mr Chaiwat.
Saowalux Po-Ngam, a member of Turn Left, another socialist group, said the Truth for Reconciliation Committee (TRC) should be blamed for not clearly stating that the crackdown on the protest violated human rights. She said the flawed report has now been abused to legitimise the actions of those responsible by making the "men in black" case. "The presence of the 'men in black' is no excuse for the government to use heavy force against the people," she said.
Jittimat Suksai, an independent human rights activist, said the public needs to push the government into abolishing provisions in the Martial Law Act and Section 17 of the Emergency Decree which protect state officials from criminal and civil prosecution. "Although the inquest to determine the deaths from the April-May 2010 crackdown is underway, there is no guarantee the criminal lawsuits against the authorities will begin since the authorities are immune from legal punishment," said Ms Jittimat.
The immunity laws should be changed so governments can no longer use them to justify excessive use of force, she said.
Meanwhile, the ruling Pheu Thai Party has lashed out at the National Anti-Corruption Commission's (NACC) decision to press charges against those involved in a crackdown on yellow-shirt protesters in Bangkok four years ago.
Pheu Thai spokesman Prompong Nopparit said the public are aware of the NACC's agenda in indicting those involved in the crackdown. He said it was ironic there had been no progress in the NACC's probe into the dispersal of red-shirt demonstrators two years ago by the Abhisit Vejjajiva government.
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