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Southeast Asia
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 terrorists insurgents fighting security forces and would give them only four million baht in compensation, despite school children and the elderly being among the victims.

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 terrorist insurgent label was unacceptable because it slandered the victims.

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 terrorists militants or that they had shot at soldiers before they were killed in the military operation.

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 terrorists insurgents.
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