Trials ordered in 20-year-old Thailand military, police 'massacre'

FILE - Widow Sitirokayah Salaeh (R) visits the cemetery in Tak Bai where her late husband Mahamad Lohbako is buried together with other anti-government demonstrators who died during the 2004 Tak Bai incident, in Narathiwat Province, Oct. 24, 2019. 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 - Thai-Muslim students hold a candlelight vigil for victims of the Tak Bai shooting on its third anniversary, outside the United Nations building in Bangkok, Oct. 25, 2007.

A court in Buddhist-majority Thailand decided Friday to try seven former military and police officials for their roles in the deaths of 85 Muslim men at a protest that took place 20 years ago.