Shinawatra hires war crimes lawyer
BANGKOK, May 31 – Fugitive former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s legal team said Monday it had hired an international war crimes expert to help investigate a recent army crackdown on protesters in Bangkok.
Dutch professor GJ Alexander Knoops, previously involved in cases on the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone, will help attempt to bring the Thai government to court for alleged human rights violations, a statement said.
The statement by Thaksin’s legal team accused the Thai government of “flagrantly breaching its obligations as a member of the international community and the United Nations Human Rights Council”.
