Ms Khattiyaa said yesterday she has been denied the chance to lay flowers, and light candles to honour the memory of her father at the place he was gunned down on May 13, 2010 during the political protests. "It will be the seven-year anniversary so we should be allowed to lay flowers and light candles to express our love, remember and show gratitude towards our father." Maj Gen Khattiya was shot in the head by an unidentified sniper while giving an interview to foreign reporters near Sala Daeng intersection in Silom during the political violence on May 13, 2010. Former deputy prime minister Chalerm Yubamrung, under the government of Yingluck Shinawatra, claimed in 2012 that a group of senior police officers were behind the assassination of Maj Gen Khattiya. A deputy commissioner holding the rank of police lieutenant general arranged for a sniper to shoot Maj Gen Khattiya, he said.

Source: Bangkok Post May 12, 2017 22:41 UTC