Thailand: 80 Thai Muslims killed by suffocation in army trucks after arrest

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The high death toll, and the way the protesters have died, has caused the tensions to rise in the area where it's been ten months since the troubles started in the south Thailand.

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By  Sacha Kester - August 11, 2012

Thai Prime Minister blames Ramadhan for protester deaths.

Eighty Muslim protesters in southern Thailand were suffocated in army trucks after they were put under arrest, it has been revealed by the Thai authorities yesterday, according to a reports published in the British newspaper, The Telegraph.

Six people had already been killed after security forces opened fire on the demonstrators, when the protests got out of hand in the Muslim-dominated region.

The high death toll, and the way the protesters have died, has caused the tensions to rise in the area where it's been ten months since the troubles started in the south Thailand.

Ramadan

The Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra suggested that the protesters probably died because of Ramadan.

They would have become very weak from fasting and therefore they died in the trucks, he said.

The protesters in Tak Bai had demanded that the police release six village guards, who were arrested because they were accused of giving weapons to militants and the protesters had threatened to storm the police station.

There were six people killed and 1,300 others arrested.

"After we wanted to bring them into detention, we discovered that 78 of them were dead," said an official of the Ministry of Justice to The Telegraph . "Investigation has shown that they were suffocated."

According to Pornthip Rojanasunan, a forensic expert at the ministry, the nose and mouth of men were  stuffed with "something".

"Two or three of them had a broken neck."


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