Tajlandia - już 1100 ludzi zabitych przez policję

IP: 212.76.37.* 01.03.03, 21:13
Już 1100 ludzi zabitych przez policję w Tajlandii w ciągu ostatniego
miesiąca - aktualizacja
1 marca 2003.... w ramach pomocy dla Gazety ;-)

Turyści proszeni są o nieoddalanie się od głównych szlaków turystycznych, o
zwiedzanie grupowe. Zdesperowani przestępcy związani z narkotykami są zdolni
nawet do brania zakładników (jak dotąd zakładnikami byli tylko obywatele
Tajlandii ale....)

Inne zagrożenie to ewentualna obecność (przypadkowa, ale też może się
zdarzyć) przy tzw. "egzekucjach". Policja może wówczas postąpić nierozsądnie.
Warto unikać takich sytuacji. Utrata twarzy to termin niemal magiczny w
Tajlandii. Lepiej więc trzymać się głównych atrakcji turystycznych.

    • Gość: Ryba Re: Tajlandia - już 1100 ludzi zabitych przez pol IP: 212.76.37.* 01.03.03, 21:40
      Police 'dragging feet' in murder case

      Published on Mar 2, 2003


      The nephew of a woman shot dead as a result of her alleged involvement in the
      drug trade said yesterday that local police had no intention of bringing the
      murderers to justice.

      Sak (not his real name) told that his aunt, Somjit Kwanyooyen, 42, had been
      shot dead at her house in Ban Laem district on February 20th but the police had
      shown no interest in finding the murderers.

      "They did not even bother to collect the bullets found at the scene for
      investigation," he said.Sak said he suspected the lack of police interest in
      the case was due to his aunt's alleged involvement in the drug trade.

      "Three days before her death my aunt was told she had been blacklisted by the
      police. Out of fear, she went to the police station and signed some papers. But
      as she could not read, she would not have been able to understand what they
      said. She signed because the police said that if she didn't she would get into
      big trouble," he said.

      Somjit was shot eight times by three mysterious gunmen who stopped at her shop
      house, which is about 20 metres away from the police box, Sak said.

      "Police took too long to arrive and investigate the murder scene," he said.

      After Somjit's death, police only questioned her husband and daughter once, he
      said.

      "The police only asked the daughter if the family was involved in the drug
      trade. They didn't ask questions about the murder," he said.

      Somjit's daughter then went around saying that her mother had had nothing to do
      with drugs, and the police warned her to shut up or else she would get into
      trouble, Sak said, adding: "Since then family members and relatives have been
      living in silent fear."

      Ban Laem Police commander Colonel Taveesak na Songkhla said that the police had
      actually searched the scene but found no bullet fragments. "We obtained five
      bullet fragments from the corpse at the hospital," he said.

      "If the relatives have found more bullet fragments, they should give them to
      police instead of keeping them and saying publicly that we are ignoring the
      case," he said.

      "We believe that her killing stems from within drug circles, and we are
      investigating the case," he said.

      Taveesak said that since the drug suppression campaign was launched there had
      been three cases of murder of people involved in the trade in the district and
      police were working hard on them.

      "But investigation can not be totally efficient because we need to use officers
      to arrest those blacklisted in order to fulfil the government quota," he said.

      Meanwhile Bangkok Senator Sak Korreungsaeng yesterday said that the two
      committees set up to monitor the drug-suppression campaign should not rely
      solely on local police reports.

      He said they had to be independent and well equipped in order to work
      efficiently. "Without these two key factors they will not succeed and will just
      be a public-relations exercise," he said.

      PHETCHABURI
    • Gość: Ryba Re: Tajlandia - już 1100 ludzi zabitych przez pol IP: 212.76.37.* 01.03.03, 21:44
      SIDELINES: Cold-blooded murder as government policy

      Published on Mar 2, 2003

      Overkill takes it toll. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has obviously begun
      to feel the heat of a public uproar over excessive extrajudicial executions of
      drug dealers all over the nation. The latest body count shows the figure rising
      to more than 1,400, and a lot more are still expected to die from bullets.

      What has gone wrong in this fair land? Many people with troubled consciences
      have been asking themselves this, for they have not received an appropriate
      response from the powers that be, who show satisfaction in the rising number of
      dead drug dealers.

      Of course, Prime Minister Thaksin will go down in the country’s history for the
      shoot-to-kill policy.

      Human-rights groups have been raising a hue and cry over the extrajudicial
      killings. When the death toll was still in the hundreds, the chief and Interior
      Minister Wan Mohamad Noor Matha professed to be unperturbed. They even scoffed
      and sarcastically hit out at critics. Thai Rak Thai Party members regard human-
      rights groups as sympathisers with drug dealers.

      Obviously, things got out of control. Drug dealers died by extrajudicial
      killing or just plain murder in droves, thus attracting the attention of
      Amnesty International and the UN High Commission for Human Rights, which is
      expected to debate Thailand’s case in Geneva later this month.

      By that time, nobody knows how many dead will lie at the doors of the
      perpetrators of the shoot-to-kill policy.

      Of course, Thailand has never experienced a situation when wholesale slaughter
      was permitted or ignored by law-enforcement authorities. The police have taken
      things in their stride as dead bodies fall like tenpins in a hail of bullets.
      The one-time highest score was six villagers slain in a pickup in Chiang Rai
      province on Friday.

      Those murders took place after the prime minister set up two committees to
      monitor the war against drug dealers.

      The funny thing is that there have not been any big fish caught, let alone
      murdered, despite repeated claims of drug-dealer blacklists by the police and
      the Interior Ministry. If they indeed have such lists, they should contain all
      the big-timers and not just the small fry who have died every day with the
      blessing of the authorities.

      Drug addicts deserve punishment, of course, but not by getting killed. Children
      of prominent political and social figures are known to have been addicted or
      still to be addicted to drugs, and their names should be on the blacklists.
      Those names are generally known among people who keep themselves up to date.
      But those delinquents will never be killed, owing to the protection of their
      parents.

      The government, particularly the prime minister, is in a dilemma. If the rate
      of extrajudicial executions or murders drops sharply, it means that someone in
      the government signalled to the executioners that they should slow down their
      killings. If the high rate continues, it means that drug dealers have been
      responsible for the executions, and the government must be pressured to go
      after the killers with reasonable enthusiasm.

      The reluctance on the part of government leaders to monitor the killings may
      not be because there is too much blood on their hands. They are a bit worried
      about the public backlash following “collateral damage” in which children were
      also among the victims of murder in cold blood.

      What will be the ultimate result of the war against drug traders? The big fish
      will get away. They have plenty of money.

      The “mad drug” is getting expensive, the price per tablet having risen a bit
      over Bt100 to somewhere between Bt300 and Bt500. This is ridiculous indeed.
      What the public should fear most is speculation that the drug traders will pool
      their vast financial resources and strike back to protect the profitable but
      illegal trade.

      Who knows? They may take bold steps, offer an attractive price on the heads of
      whoever have had the nerve to mess with them. That is something nobody wants to
      see happen. It would be a defeat for the country and its future generations.

      In the meantime, let’s hope that Thailand is not to be condemned by the
      international community for the blatant violation of human rights. That would
      cause incalculable damage to the country’s export trade and investment. Such is
      the fruit of the arrogance of power and the quest for a quick victory in an
      unwinnable war.

      Sopon Onkgara

    • Gość: Janko Re: Tajlandia - już 1100 ludzi zabitych przez pol IP: *.samart.co.th 10.07.03, 15:01
      Wiekszych BREDNI jeszcze nie czytalem!!! Czlowieku obudz sie, juz rano!!!
      janusz@ultima.co.th
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