Sunai to file complaint with ICC over deaths of 91 reds

Pheu Thai MP Sunai Julponsathorn said Monday he will petition the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague on December 9 to take up the crime against humanity case against the 91 who were killed during the military crackdown on red shirts in April and May last year.

Sunai said the move is aimed at making sure that there will be no suspicion that the current Pheu Thai government will interfere with the ongoing investigations by the local authorities.
Sunai, who is chairman of the House Committe on Foreign Affairs, said he will use his own money for the travel and many red shirts in European have organized everything for him.

Sunai said both then Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his deputy Suthep Thuaksubhan will have to accountable as they were in charge of the crackdown last year.

Pheu Thai partylist MP Kattiyar Sawasdiphol, whose father Maj Gen Kattiya Sawasdiphol was shot and killed by sniper fire last year said there has been no progress in the investigation of her father's death and thus she is counting on the ICC to take up the case.

Thailand however is not among 119 member states to the ICC. It has not yet ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.