By Thai Newsroom Reporters
PHEU THAI MP PISAL Watanawongkhiri was believed to have gone abroad to escape arrest for his alleged involvement in 2004’s Tak Bai manslaughter, police said today (Oct. 5).
The police today raided Pisal’s house in Pakkret area on the northwestern outskirts of the capital but the Pheu Thai MP who is a retired army general previously in charge of the Fourth Army Region and has been held accountable for the manslaughter in Narathiwat was not found and believed to have already fled the country.
Deputy House Speaker Pichet Chuamuangpan confirmed that the Pheu Thai party-listed MP on the loose had earlier taken leave from the House of Representatives until the end of this month for personal reasons.
An arrest warrant has been earlier issued by the Narathiwat provincial court for Pisal whilst the 20-year litigation period will expire in the next 20 days, the police said.
The former southern army commander who had performed in the time of former prime minister/now de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra had been held accountable, alongside eight other suspects, for the historic manslaughter of 85 southern protesters, 78 of whom had suffocated after they had been rounded up by army troops outside Tak Bai police station and carried aboard overcrowded army trucks on the way to an army camp in Pattani.
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Top and Front Page: Pheu MP and former Fourth Army Region commander Pisal Watanawongkhiri. Photo:Matichon
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