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- Subject: Bangkok Post Nov 17: Court rejects claims against Tribunal
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 17:04:44 +1100
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- THE Civil Court yesterday rejected a complaint from two activists
- contesting the validity of the Constitution Tribunal ruling on the
- Parliament's rejecion of the Amnesty Decree.
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- The complaint was lodged by two lawyers, Varunchai Chokechana
- and Boonrith Ketsamai.
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- They asked the court to declare the tribunal ruling invalid,
- claming the tribunal had no power to rule on the decree because it
- no longer existed after its earlier rejection by the Parliament.
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- Civil Court deputy chief justice Suwan Trakarnpan and chief judge
- Vibul Nonthachuti decided the lawyers lacked the legal grounds to
- fight the case in court and rejected the complaint.
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- Democrat MP Mr Preecha Suwannatat said United States-based
- relatives of people killed in the May crackdown could take legal
- action against military commanders of the operation but it was up
- to the courts to decide whether they would hear the case.
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- He said the Executive Decree had been wrongly issued from the
- start as governments were not authorised to issue laws which
- withhold criminal prosecution, but the Constitution Tribunal
- ruling meant the amnesty was now effective and must be accepted.
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- Mr Preecha also said verdicts reached in cases in the United
- States could not be enforced in Thailand.
-