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Amsterdam to sue Govt in world court

By The Nation

The red shirts have agreed to appoint international lawyer Robert Amsterdam to represent them in suing the government with the International Criminal Court, their leader said Wednesday.

Thida Thawornseth, acting chairwoman of the red shirt movement, told a press conference that a meeting of red shirt leaders agreed to "heighten our fight to the world court level".
She said that the red shirts decided to "seek justice" regarding the government crackdown on the red shirt protesters in May last year by appointing Amsterdam to represent them in bringing their case to the International Criminal Court.
The ICC prosecutes individuals for crimes against humanity and similar crimes.
On January 31, a press conference will be held through a video-link from overseas about the move to sue the Thai government, according to Thida.
Amsterdam, a Canadian lawyer and founding partner of the law firm Amsterdam & Peroff, with offices in Toronto, Washington and London, has been hired by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is a major supporter of the red shirt movement.
Thida said the red-shirt leaders would cooperate with relatives of Hiroyuki Muramoto, a Japanese cameraman for Reuters who was killed during the protest crackdown on April 10 last year, to sue the Thai government with a Japanese court seeking criminal penalties and civil damages.
She also said she had learned that relatives of Italian photographer Fabio Polenghi, another foreign journalist killed during a later protest crackdown, had sued the Thai government with a court in Italy seeking both criminal and civil punishment.