Bangkok Crimes

KC: This Bangkok Post editorial is a response to a tumultuous week in the deep South defined by a militant attack on Thai-Muslim worshippers in a mosque in Narathiwat’s Cho Airong district. The attack killed 10 people. Reports and commentary on recent events can be found here, here and here via the Bangkok Post and [...]

Court declares Muslim lawyer legally missing
Mr Somchai’s wife petitioned the court asking that her husband be declared missing so she could legally take control of his assets.
Mrs Angkhana, a human rights campaigner in Pattani, is convinced her husband was killed after being abducted by police on Ramkhamhaeng Road in Bangkok on March 12, 2004.
The law [...]