NSTworld: 'All three people shot dead were villagers, not militants,'
"regret" after troops shot dead three Muslim men foraging in the jungle this week and promised a probe, a rare admission of wrongdoing by the military in Thailand's insurgency-scarred south.
"All three people shot dead were villagers, not militants," Lieutenant General Pornsak Poolsawat admitted in a statement obtained Wednesday. The three men killed Monday had been foraging in the jungle, Pornsak said, vowing an investigation into whether perpetrators had"intentionally" killed the men, which could result in prosecution.
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