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Families of Thai mosque incident victims seek justice |
2012-09-03 |
Relatives of 32 Muslims killed in the 2004 Krue Se Mosque incident in southern Thailand have complained after officials branded the dead as armed Representatives of those killed want 7.5 million baht, the amount given to victims of past political violence including the red-shirts in 2010. They said the families of the deceased felt the The families met Democrat deputy leader Thaworn Senneam on Sunday to seek justice. Mr Thaworn told a news conference that post-mortem examinations and a court order related to the case did not state that the people killed at the mosque were suspected Mr Thaworn said he would file a petition demanding Prime Minister Yingluck Shinnawatra to look into the matter within this week. He would also ask the House committee on law, justice and human rights to find out whether any state officials accused the slain Muslims of being |
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