Boonlert proposes amnesty for demonstrators
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Boonlert Kachayutthadej, a member of the National Reform Council, proposed on Tuesday that a provisional clause granting protesters amnesty be included in the charter along with the removal of some independent organisations.
He announced in Parliament that he had submitted a personal petition for the charter amendment, which included the suggestion to drop the National Strategic as well as the Reconciliation Committees.
Boonlert said he’d proposed that the Constitution Drafting Committee add a provisional clause to grant amnesty to those who demonstrated in the leadups to 2006 and 2014 coups, excluding the leaders and those charged under Article 112 or with other serious criminal cases.
This principle had been approved by politicians, as well as protest leaders of all sides and proposed in a bill to the Parliament. However, it was rejected, leading to court cases and imprisonment of the perpetrators.
