BANGKOK: Survivors of a deadly army crackdown in Thailand that killed more than 90 people were to observe the 10-year anniversary mostly in private on Tuesday amid a state of emergency prompted by the coronavirus pandemic.

The 2010 crackdown was a watershed moment in Thailand's polarised politics that pitted the royalist-military establishment against the "Red Shirt" movement of mostly rural and working class supporters of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.