The Democrats yesterday accused ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra of being behind the so-called “men in black” who were allegedly hired to kill innocents including red-shirt protesters in order to smear the previous Abhisit government.

Democrat Party deputy leader Apirak Kosayodhin was speaking during the party’s discussion at Lumpini Park on “Seeking the truth: who is behind the merciless men in black in Thailand’.

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