Officers Face Dismissal for Protesters’ Deaths
A disciplinary panel found three army commanders responsible for the deaths of 78 protesters in Thailand’s troubled Muslim-majority south and has recommended their dismissal, its head said.
The officers were in charge of transporting more than 1,300 detained protesters after a riot Oct. 25. Seventy-eight suffocated or were crushed to death after being bound and piled into trucks.
Gen. Kasemchart Naretsanee said the three commanders should be removed from their jobs, but not forced out of government service “as they have worked to serve the nation.”
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