Jatuporn insists documentation of troops killing Red Shirt protesters genuine

BANGKOK, Dec 25 — A key leader of the anti-government movement insisted Saturday that documents which he had leaked to the public regarding troops killing anti-government protesters earlier this year were genuine and that he was ready to reveal them all during a debate in the lower house as he has parliamentary immunity.

Jatuporn Prompan, a key leader of the ‘Red Shirt’ United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), told journalists that what he had told a press conference earlier this week was “only a part of all the genuine documents” which proved that government troops killed UDD members during the anti-government protests in April and May.

The reports which Mr Jatupron claimed to possess were published by Department of Special Investigation (DSI) and were believed to concern the death on April 10 of a Japanese cameraman identified as Hiroyuki Muramoto who worked with Britain’s Reuters news agency along with six deaths at a Buddhist temple in the Thai capital on May 19 — the day troops clashed with protesters.

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