Polisen misstänker att de har hittat massgrav i Rayong

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Polisen misstänker att de har hittat massgrav i Rayong

Polisen kommer att undersöka de 169 kroppar som hittats begravda vid två tempel i Rayong-provinsen för att avgöra om det kan vara de saknade röda demonstranter som sägs ha försvunnit under förra årets upplopp.

Pol Lt-General Santhan Chayanont ledde ett team för att inspektera Templena Wat Klong Takwa och Wat Huay Yang på östkusten, i Klaeng distriktet. Polisen upptäckte 72 kroppar på det första templet och en annan 97 på det andra.

Santhan sade han agerade på order från den biträdande nationella polischefen General Priewpan Damapong.

Enligt templets munkar hade kropparna förts in av två män från en lokal välgörenhetsorganisation som berättade för dem att liken inte hade begärts och det fanns inga juridiska ärenden relaterade till deras död. Santhan sade att kropparna skulle vara uppgrävda för DNA-tester för att fastställa identitet och tillade att de inblandade med deras begravning också skulle ifrågasättas.

Fritt översatt från The Nation av Google Translate

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senaste nytt fran Bangkok Post i fragan:

Bodies ‘unlikely’ to be missing red-shirts
Published: 19/08/2011 at 05:51 PM
Online news:

Suspicions that missing red-shirts may be among 169 bodies found in Rayong are likely to carry little weight after a Chumphon-based rescue group confirmed it handed over the bodies to its counterpart in Rayong as part of a cemetery clean up ceremony there.

Sanguan Nilrattanothai, president of the Association of Buddha Prateep Lang Suan, a community based volunteer rescue organisation in Lang Suan district of Chumphon, on Friday insisted his group sent the bodies to one of its affiliated organization in the province in August last year.

According to Mr Sanguan, the Rayong-based group wanted to host a clean-up ceremony at a local cemetery but found out that there were a few unidentified corpses there. It then asked his agency to send more bodies to take part in the religious event which was a usual tradition practice.

He said the delivery of the bodies had already been on the news once when they were sent to attend a cemetery clean-up elsewhere. However, he did not elaborate.

Chukiet Chanbamroong, a rescue worker, said the 169 unidentified bodies had been collected in the past 10 years. Most of them were foreign migrant workers who worked in the fishing sector. He said the transport of the bodies to Rayong was legal as it was approved by Pol Col Supoj Boonchooduang who was then chief of Lang Suan police station.

Pol Col Supoj, who is now chief of Sawi district police station in Chumphon, told reporters he had endorsed the Association of Buddha Prateep Lang Suan’s request to transfer the bodies to an Eastern province but could not remember the number of the bodies. He said he examined the skeletons and gave his permission as there were no irregularities.

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