"Southern insurgents are threatening the lives of the two senior judges who presided over the inquest into the 2004 Tak Bai deaths in Narathiwat, a security source says. The Interior Ministry's intelligence and special affairs office has sent a confidential letter to the Songkhla provincial court chief to warn of a plot to kill the two judges who are requesting to be transferred from the province, the source said yesterday.
The judges presided over a special inquest at Songkhla provincial court and on May 29 cleared security forces of any wrongdoing in their handling of the Tak Bai protesters on Oct 25, 2004. They said security personnel had acted in full accordance with the law and in a justified manner. Following a demonstration, unarmed Malay Muslims were packed on top of one another in the back of military trucks to be taken to detention, but 78 died from suffocation on the way. In all, 85 people died that day.
The source said judges Yingyos Tan-orachorn and Jutharat Sansewee had asked Supreme Court president Virat Limvichai, also chair of the Judicial Commission, to transfer them out of Songkhla. Their requests have yet to be approved. Office of the Judiciary deputy secretary-general Sarawut Benjakul said yesterday the transfer requests would be raised in today's meeting of the Judicial Commission."
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Tak Bai judges want transfer out of south
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Posted 27 June 2009 - 05:14 PM
One of the tragic long term consequences of the politization of the judiciary is the elimination of any pretense that equal justice is being administered. When the people lose faith in the integrity of the courts, and their ability to receive equal justice under law, a society is not far from violence, be it the rule of the jungle or revolutionary reform.
