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Compensation fund runs dry

By The Nation
Published on July 31, 2010

The Rights and Liberties Protection Department is running out of money to compensate victims of the red-shirt protest, including the protesters themselves, and is seeking emergency funds from the government.

More than Bt200 million of its regular budget has already been spent and the department is now in a Bt40-million deficit for making advance payments to 150 complainants, including the families of 40 killed during the protests. Another 100 victims on the waiting list are mostly those who sustained injuries.

The department has spent around Bt1.3 billion in compensating up to 18,000 people since it was established in 2002.