Army obstructs investigations on crackdown

Of course, most reasonable observers know that the army and its Democrat Party-led coalition government want no serious investigation into the events of April and May 2010.

As part of its sop to international opinion, however, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva set up a Truth for Reconciliation Commission headed by Kanit Na Nakhon. It wasn’t expected to actually be much more than window-dressing.

Interestingly, though, some members of the commission have been more serious in their attention to the commission’s work. Thus it was a pointed criticism when Kanit said recently, that after 8 months of work:

Unless we get the military’s operation plans for those days, we can’t conclude if there was an excessive use of force, or more precisely which [fatalities] were the responsibility of soldiers…. We have received little cooperation from the military and government agencies.

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