21/06/2010
Bangkok Post
About 1,000 police will be deployed to provide security and help traffic flows around Wat Sommanatviharn in Pomprap Satruphai district where the royally sponsored funeral for Maj-Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol, better known as Seh Daeng, will be held on Tuesday, Metropolitan Police Division 1 commander Wichai Sangprapai said on Monday.
There will be 800 police from four anti-riot companies and another 200 from Nang Lerng and Chana Songkhram police stations.
Pol Maj-Gen Wichai said he expected at least 10,000 people to attend the funeral, including red-shirt supporters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, Seh Daeng's former subordinates, opposition and government politicians, high-ranking police and soldiers.
It had not been decided whether inspection points would be set up for weapon checks, he said.
Maj-Gen Khattiya, who was the security chief for the UDD protest at Ratchaprasong, was shot in the head on May 13 while giving a press interview near the Sala Daeng intersection. He died on May 17.
Before the incident, Maj-Gen Khattiya had been suspended from duty as an army specialist for alleged misconduct after an army committee recommended he face criminal charges in a military court.
Maj Gen Khattiya's salary had also been suspended since Jan 4 after he was found to have offended and insulted army chief Gen Anupong Paojinda.
He also travelled to meet ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra once in Cambodia and again in Dubai without informing his superiors he was leaving the country, as required by miliary regulations.
He also led a group of about 200 former military rangers to work as security guards for the UDD and acted openly as the leader of the UDD's security team at the Ratchaprasong rally site.
There will be 800 police from four anti-riot companies and another 200 from Nang Lerng and Chana Songkhram police stations.
Pol Maj-Gen Wichai said he expected at least 10,000 people to attend the funeral, including red-shirt supporters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, Seh Daeng's former subordinates, opposition and government politicians, high-ranking police and soldiers.
It had not been decided whether inspection points would be set up for weapon checks, he said.
Maj-Gen Khattiya, who was the security chief for the UDD protest at Ratchaprasong, was shot in the head on May 13 while giving a press interview near the Sala Daeng intersection. He died on May 17.
Before the incident, Maj-Gen Khattiya had been suspended from duty as an army specialist for alleged misconduct after an army committee recommended he face criminal charges in a military court.
Maj Gen Khattiya's salary had also been suspended since Jan 4 after he was found to have offended and insulted army chief Gen Anupong Paojinda.
He also travelled to meet ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra once in Cambodia and again in Dubai without informing his superiors he was leaving the country, as required by miliary regulations.
He also led a group of about 200 former military rangers to work as security guards for the UDD and acted openly as the leader of the UDD's security team at the Ratchaprasong rally site.
9 comments:
He is very good man. Care about poor people. He is a hero.
he was a goat who died for others benefits.
Fucking Abhisit government and Thai royals killed Seh Deng, and now the same criminals are organizing a funeral for him to do a PR.
All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad day till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
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English: Got War!
Khmer: Mien Songkhream!
Thai: Mii Songkhram!
Laotian: Mi Songkham!
He sacrified for all Thai. He died for poor Thai, equality and justice. His name will be always glorious for Thai history.
We must continue to fight
It is very unfortunate!
The General should have known better not to insert himself in the line of snipers' fire (with his proud camouflage fatigue and all).
He failed his Urban Warfare and Terrorist training.
To be a Samurai one mistake will be your last.
What a waste, he could have laid low, stay alive, and come back to fight another day!
Seh (Sena) Deng I salute you anyway!
7:45pm, Thanks for posting that. It's beautiful.
800 police to protect a dead man??? Are they afraid someone might kill him again or even steal his body.
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