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Prachatai reports that former military-backed Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has “dismissed allegations that he was involved in the crackdown on the Red Shirt protests in 2010…”.

This came during an invited lecture at Chulalongkorn University, after a protest by a group of students. The lecture on 2 November 2025 was said to be on public policy at the Faculty of Political Science.

The disgraced “new” Democrat Party leader was invited by the ultra-royalist snitch who posed as a “retired academic,” Chaiyan Chaiyaporn. It looks like one ratbag supporting the disgraced royalist, military-backed fabricator of “truths.” This is a part of the effort to “remake” the disheveled party following its electoral  destruction in all elections since Abhisit ordered the military crackdown on red shirts that killed scores and injured hundreds.

The small group of protesting “students challenged his role in the 2010 Red Shirt crackdown.” They demanded “justice for the victims,” and held “banners during the event including one suggesting he was the one who ordered the crackdown. Abhisit sat down and debated with the students, highlighting his innocence.”

Abhisit’s defense is that the ruling class’s legal system did not find him at fault for ordering two murderous crackdowns. He has a long history of denial, including a book, but fails to explain much at all, although he gets close in this infamous BBC interview:

The report mentions Abhisit’s version of events, but there’s nothing new in it.

He reckons “his orders for the crackdown were explicitly to avoid casualties…”. Really? How did that go?

Shooting red shirts

Abhisit reiterated that he had nothing to do with the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) or the so-called Yellow Shirts. The Democrat Party gave their support to PAD when Abhisit was leader, as they did to the People’s Democratic Reform Committee, which was essentially built of the Democrat Party.

Abhisit and Suthep as anti-democrats

The Faculty’s student union “publicly questioned the appropriateness of inviting Abhisit to lecture on public policy when in their view, he had demonstrated a failure and neglect of public accountability regarding the 2010 Red Shirt crackdown.”

Since the 2010 crackdowns, “no individuals who were responsible for the death of the Red Shirt protesters have been brought to justice.”

Responding to Abhisit’s “legal” claims, “Natthawut Saikua, former leader of the Red Shirt movement, argued that the Criminal Court has never ruled that Abhisit was innocent, but rather determined that the case was not within its jurisdiction…”.

Abhisit may think that the electorate has forgotten his and the military’s horrible assaults. We doubt that.

Killing citizens: snipers “avoiding casualties.”