Pheu Thai to seek justice for 91 political fatalities last year

BANGKOK, November 28 (TNA) - The Thai House Committee on Foreign Affairs will go ahead with seeking justice at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for 91 people who died from the previous Democrat Party-led government's violent political crackdown last year. Accompanied by three list MPs of the now ruling Pheu Thai Party, aligned with the red-clad National United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), including Khattiya Sawasdipol, a daughter of late Thai army specialist Khattiya Sawasdipol, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Sunai Julapongsathorn said on Monday that he will fly to the Netherlands on December 9 to file a petition with the Hague-based ICC to seek for progress on the case. Sunai noted that the new petition will also mean to ensure justice for then prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and then deputy prime minister for security affairs Suthep Thaugsuban from the Democrat Party, who allegedly involved in official orders on the violent crackdown against UDD political protesters in April-May last year, resulting in the 91 fatalities. (TNA)