The victims and their families of Thailand's 2004 Tak Bai Massacre are running out of hope for justice two decades after police troopers killed and abused protesters in the country's south. The statute of limitations is expiring, with no suspects having been to trial.
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00:00The victims of Thailand's 2004 Tak Bai massacre are losing hope for justice, as the statute
00:06of limitations for any prosecution ended on Friday.
00:11Twenty years ago, Thai security forces opened fire on ethnic Malay protesters outside a
00:17police station in the southern town of Tak Bai, close to the Malaysian border, killing
00:22seven people.
00:24Officers then tied up over 1,000 other protesters and stacked them face down in the back of
00:28police trucks.
00:30Seventy-eight suffocated or were crushed to death.
00:33Families of the victims say no members of the Thai military were ever brought to justice.