Mother of slain paramedic calls for exemption of Abhisit, Suthep from amnesty
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Payao Akahad, mother of Kamolket, paramedic who died in the political crackdown in 2010, Thursday demanded that the amnesty bill would exclude former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and former deputy prime minister Suthep Thaugsuban from amnesty.
She submitted the demand in a letter to Samart Kaewmechai, chairman of the House ad hoc committee vetting the amnesty bill.
Her group, which includes the relatives of the victims from the event, called on the committee to amend a clause in the bill so that the former government leaders, who ordered the crackdown on red-shirt demonstrators in 2010, would not get amnesty.
The group also called on the government to speed up assistance to the people detained from the incident so that they would get bail.
The Nation
