Angkhana Neelapaijit has demanded the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) change the team investigating her husband's disappearance 11 years ago because they have failed to shed any light on the mystery.
The chairwoman of the Working Group for Justice and Peace said on Wednesday she will tomorrow visit the corner of Soi Ramkhamhaeng 69 and Ramkhamhaeng Road, the location where her husband Somchai was last seen, on March 12, 2004. It will be her first visit there.
Angkhana: Doesn’t trust probe chief
"I haven't gone to that spot because I was not strong enough. After all these years I can now cope with that, and want to stand there," Mrs Angkhana said.
Human rights lawyer Somchai was bundled into a car by five police officers that day and nobody has seen him since. He earlier took up a case to defend clients charged with attacking a military base in Narathiwat on Jan 4, 2004, and stealing weapons from the armoury.
Mrs Angkhana voiced her disappointment over the lack of progress to DSI chief Suwana Suwanjuta at a meeting yesterday, where she sought a briefing on the case.
She told the DSI director-general she should remove Nirund Adulyasak, who is in charge of special cases, from his position as chief investigator on the case.
She said the DSI official was unwilling to shed any light on the disappearance of her husband.
"Frankly, I don't trust the work of Pol Col Nirund. He told a press conference during a political rally in 2013 that protesters raided a DSI building and stole six files relating to the case from a closet.
"Later on he said the files were recovered. How can I trust him?" she told reporters after the meeting.
