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Fri, 08/19/2011 - 12:29
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Nearly 170 bodies await identification
RAYONG, August 19 (TNA) - Thai police will exhume 169 bodies at three Buddhist temples in the country's eastern Rayong Province, as they are suspected of being the bodies of people missing during Thailand's bloody political unrest last year.
The Thai police on Friday morning cordoned off the graveyard of Huay Yang Temple in Rayong's Klaeng District, where 61 unidentified bodies have reportedly been buried, out of a total of 169 unidentified bodies having been reportedly buries in three temples in the eastern Thai provinces. However, the police said that they have not set an exact date for the exhumation.
Earlier, Thai Deputy National Police Chief Police General Priewpan Damapong ordered Police General Santan Chayanont, Chief of the Royal Thai Police's Office of Legal Affairs and Litigation, to examine the reported bodies in Rayong. Pol Gen Santan later said that the local police seized 169 graves at the three temples, and that the bodies have been buried without any evidence, death certificates or reports on the causes of death.
Police General Santan acknowledged that the police investigators wondered why the Buddha Prateep Langsuan Association had to move the bodies from Thailand's southern Chumphon Province to Rayong, confirming that the police would straightforwardly examine the bodies.
The discovery of the 169 unidentified bodies has drawn wide criticisms and some parties have wondered if they were the red-shirt protesters missing during the country's political demonstrations under the tenure of the previous Democrat Party-led government. (TNA)
The Thai police on Friday morning cordoned off the graveyard of Huay Yang Temple in Rayong's Klaeng District, where 61 unidentified bodies have reportedly been buried, out of a total of 169 unidentified bodies having been reportedly buries in three temples in the eastern Thai provinces. However, the police said that they have not set an exact date for the exhumation.
Earlier, Thai Deputy National Police Chief Police General Priewpan Damapong ordered Police General Santan Chayanont, Chief of the Royal Thai Police's Office of Legal Affairs and Litigation, to examine the reported bodies in Rayong. Pol Gen Santan later said that the local police seized 169 graves at the three temples, and that the bodies have been buried without any evidence, death certificates or reports on the causes of death.
Police General Santan acknowledged that the police investigators wondered why the Buddha Prateep Langsuan Association had to move the bodies from Thailand's southern Chumphon Province to Rayong, confirming that the police would straightforwardly examine the bodies.
The discovery of the 169 unidentified bodies has drawn wide criticisms and some parties have wondered if they were the red-shirt protesters missing during the country's political demonstrations under the tenure of the previous Democrat Party-led government. (TNA)
