BANGKOK, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a criminal lawsuit against former premier Abhisit Vejjajiva and former deputy premier Suthep Thaugsuban involving 2010's fatal crackdowns on anti-government protesters, which reportedly saw 99 people killed and about 2,000 others injured on Bangkok streets.
The Supreme Court waived the lawsuit against the former premier and former deputy premier of the Democrat Party by endorsing the rulings of the Court of Appeals and Court of First Instance, which had been earlier delivered in favor of the former premier and former deputy premier, who acted as director and deputy director of the now-defunct Center for Resolution of Emergency Situation.
Both had not perpetrated any crime in any personal intent to inflict such losses of the lives or injuries of any protesters, led by the so-called United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship, better known as Red Shirt movement, according to the Supreme Court's ruling.
At the orders of the center's director and deputy director and under the Emergency Decree of 2005, armed government troops, including army snipers, launched the crackdowns on the Red Shirt-led protesters during May 17 and May 19, 2010.
Bloodsheds had started with the deaths and injuries of a few army officers in Democracy Monument area in April and culminated in the killing of 99 protesters and wounding of some 2,000 others in Rajprasong area the following month.
