BANGKOK, Sept 18 — Thailand will prosecute eight former security personnel over their roles in a crackdown two decades ago in which 78 protesters suffocated or were crushed to death when crammed into army trucks, said the Attorney-General's Office today.

BANGKOK, Aug 24 — A Thai court has accepted a criminal lawsuit against seven senior security personnel over their alleged roles in the deaths of 85 Muslim protesters two decades ago, most of whom suffocated while piled on top of each other in Army trucks.

NAYPYIDAW, March 17 — At least 22 people, including three Buddhist monks, were shot dead at close range in central Myanmar last week, according to a doctor's post-mortem report, in what opponents of military rule say was a massacre of civilians conducted by the army.

THA UTHAI, Thailand — In the days before he killed 36 people, including 22 children stabbed as they slept, the former police sergeant behind Thailand's worst massacre was firing guns in his backyard.

UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand, Oct 8 — Hundreds of people gathered in temples in northeast Thailand on Saturday, offering candles, toys and prayers to mark the lives of more than 30 mostly child victims of a gun and knife rampage that sent shock around the world.