Case Against Thai Soldiers Forwarded To OAG

BANGKOK, December 6 (TNA) - Police investigators have already forwarded a case against nine Thai soldiers accused of involving in the murder of 13 Chinese crewmen recently to the Bangkok-based Office of the Attorney General (OAG). The Thai police have concluded that “parts of the incident” took place near the common border of Myanmar and Laos, about 25 kilometres from Thailand's northernmost border in Chiang Saen District of Chiang Rai Province. It has remained unclear who killed the Chinese sailors, but the nine Thai troops of the Pha Muang Task Force were suspected of involvement in the murders because they boarded the two vessels and reported that they had found about 920,000 speed pills and one dead body during their anti-drug mission on the Mekong River on October 5. Other dead bodies were later retrieved from the Mekong River, most were blindfolded, tied up and shot. The nine Thai soldiers have denied the charges, claiming that a drug trafficking gang from Myanmar's Shan State had hijacked the Chinese cargo ships. (TNA)