BANGKOK — The criminal court has accepted a lawsuit filed by a group of activists seeking to hold Thailand’s military junta legally responsible for staging its coup d’etat against the former government last May.

Fifteen activists from an anti-junta group called Resistant Citizens first filed suit on 22 May 2015 – the anniversary of the coup – but the court dismissed it on the grounds that the defendants had granted themselves blanket legal amnesty for the military takeover.

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