Thai special forces fired on unarmed civilians sheltering in a Buddhist temple from an elevated rail track after troops crushed an opposition protest last May.
A state inquiry into the deaths of six people in May when central Bangkok was paralysed by the anti-government demonstrations has contradicted the Thai military position that no one was killed in the temple.
More than 3,000 protesters took refuge in grounds of Wat Prathum Wanaram on the evening of May 19 when soldiers moved against the nine-week demonstration.
Six people were killed by high-velocity rounds in the temple's grounds, but the report by Thailand's Department of Special Investigation (DSI) said there was evidence to allege responsibility for three deaths.
"There is a reasonable amount of facts, evidence and witness accounts to believe that [three] deaths resulted from security officials' actions on duty," the report says. It recommends that the police investigate the matter further.
A second report by the DSI into the death of a Japanese Reuters' cameraman Hiro Muramoto, 43, on April 10 concludes that he, too, was probably killed by soldiers after he was hit in the chest by a high velocity bullet fired from the direction of the military's lines.
The DSI is investigating violence during April and May when 91 people were killed and more than 1,800 wounded in clashes between Thai troops and the Red Shirt movement bent on bringing down the government.
In contrast, soldiers who gave evidence to the DSI investigators said they merely fired warning shots in support of troops on the ground after they came under fire by men clad in black uniforms.
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