soldiers moved in a year there are demonstrations of plain red shirt anti-Government Thais are marking one year since the violent end to two months of anti-Government protests in Bangkok.A total of 92 people were killed, including 20 civilians and five soldiers killed in an attempt to crackdown on 10 April.
Demonstrators hostile to the Government of "red-shirt" provide a peaceful rally to mark the anniversary.
Researchers and an investigative body did not apportion blame for the murders.
The demonstrators - numbering up to 100,000 times - had been demanding the dissolution of the Government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
It is now called a planned for July 3 elections, but the anger and hurt remains intense among all the victims of disorders - protesters, soldiers, and those caught between two fires.
The anniversary will be marked first by a religious ceremony in a Bangkok temple, followed by a protest renewed the site of their fateful occupation in 2010.
The red shirts started demonstrations in March 2010, moving to the Central Ratchaprasong intersection, bordered by hotels five stars and shopping centres, after a military action have failed on 10 April.
After failed negotiations between the Government and certain leaders of protest figures, the Government decided to send soldiers on 19 May.
They were accused of using excessive force; as they moved, they came under fire from men armed fighting side by side with the demonstrators.
Several soldiers were killed and most of many civilians, protesters, journalists and nurses were also killed.
UnreconciledA truth and reconciliation commission has been implemented to establish the facts behind the violence. But, a year after, he has yet to make public its findings.
Yingluck Shinawatra, regarded as a stand-in for his brother Thaksin will lead the opposition in the polls"We have said time and again to the Government:"If you really want to heal, you have to take some of your officials,"" said Brad Adams, Director of Human Rights Watch Asia.
Rather, the lack of justice is the engine alongside more spaced apart, he said.
The BBC Rachel Harvey in Bangkok said that, with an election due in July, the political divisions of Thailand are likely to be exposed once more.
The question, she says, is whether differences can be resolved by the ballot box rather than on the street.
The main objectives of demonstrators now seem to be much more nesting with those of the main opposition, she said.
However, the Prime Minister himself admits that the wounds of May 2010 have not yet fully healed.
"Of course, if you ask me if today there is reconciliation, I must say"not yet"," Mr Abhisit said in a speech this month.
The former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, accused of financing the protest movement while living in exile in Dubai to avoid imprisonment, remains a figure immensely source of contention, says our correspondent.
For his supporters, he is champion of the disadvantaged who had power by powerful elites, supported by military unconstitutional.
For its detractors, Mr. Thaksin was a corrupt and authoritarian leader who manipulated gullible voters.
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