The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) gathered Monday morning at a shopping mall in the heart of Bangkok to distribute leaflets and video discs (VCDs) critical of the bloody police crackdown against demonstrators nearly two weeks ago, a PAD core leader said Sunday.
From the stage inside the Government House compound where the PAD has encamped since late August, protest core leader Sondhi Limthongkul reaffirmed on Sunday that the anti-government coalition's plan to gather at Central World, a major shopping mall near national police headquarters, to distribute VCDs and leaflets to passers-by regarding the police crackdown at Parliament on October 7.
The PAD said the VCDs and leaflets showed the police had used excessive force against the protesters.
Two people died and nearly 500 others were injured during the day-long clashes between the police and demonstrators.
Last Friday, the PAD marched through the Silom and Sathorn business districts, passing out their VCDs and leaflets to passers-by in Bangkok's primary business corridor.
Another PAD core leader Pibhob Dhongchai earlier reasserted that his group distrusted the government-appointed committee now probing on the causes of the October 7 incidents due to reports that the government tried to intervene and remove some of the 'straightforward' committee members.
Mr. Pibhob said the PAD trusted the findings of the National Human Rights Commission, a respected neutral body, which announced Friday that the government was responsible for having given the order to disperse, while the police were responsible for carrying out the action.
He said the group would rather entrust an independent investigative committee which could be set up by parliament and be comprised of members of the House of Representatives and senators, including the Opposition. (TNA)
source bangkok post
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