Families of Thailand's 'Tak Bai Massacre' seek 11th hour trial

FILE - Thai soldiers apprehend some of hundreds of men after demonstrators clashed with police outside the Tak Bai police station in Thailand's Narathiwat province, some 1150 km south of Bangkok, Oct. 25, 2004. FILE - A Thai soldier walks by hundreds of men arrested after they clashed with police outside the Tak Bai police station in Thailand's Narathiwat province, some 1,150 km south of Bangkok, Oct. 25, 2004. FILE - Relatives of victims take part in an event to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the 2004 "Tak Bai Massacre," when scores of arrested protesters suffocated to death in army trucks, in Tak Bai, in Thailand's Narathiwat province, Oct. 25, 2023.

Relatives of 85 people who died 20 years ago at a protest in Thailand’s Muslim-majority south are in a race against time to take former military and police officers to trial before the statute of limitations for their alleged crimes runs out.