BANGKOK, Dec 6 – The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) today charged Thailand’s former premier Abhisit Vejjajiva and his deputy Suthep Thuagsuban with intentionally conspiring against the 2010 civic protest in Bangkok which resulted in the death of 91 people.

DSI Director General Tarit Pengdith said Mr Abhisit, as prime minister the highest official overseeing the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES), and Mr Suthep, as CRES director, collaborated in mass murder—offences stated in Sections 59, 83, 84 and 288 of the Criminal Code.

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