Rights group calls for justice two years after crackdown
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The government has failed in making those involved in the 2010 crackdown accountable for their actions, the Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
“Those affected by the upheaval and their families are still waiting for justice because successive governments have not kept their promises to hold the abusers accountable,” John Sifton, the New Yorkbased organisation’s Asia Advocacy director, said.
This statement comes two years after thenPM Abhisit Vejjajiva deployed troops to bring a redshirt protest to an end on April 10, 2010, provoking a clash that left 19 protesters, six soldiers and a Japanese journalist dead. After two months of clashes between protesters and security personnel, the redshirt protest finally came to an end, killing 92 people and leaving parts of the capital in flames.
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