FILE PHOTO: Thai-Muslim students hold a candlelight vigil for victims of the Tak Bai shooting on its third anniversary, outside the United Nations building in Bangkok, October 25, 2007. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom/File Photo
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will prosecute eight former security personnel over their roles in a crackdown two decades ago in which 78 protesters suffocated or were crushed to death when crammed into army trucks, the attorney-general's office said on Wednesday.
The announcement comes just weeks before the expiry of the statute of limitations of the case on Oct. 25 and follows a related complaint against seven former senior security personnel filed by the victims' families that a court accepted last month.
