MFA coordinates with Myanmar to protect Thai Embassy

BANGKOK, December 29 (TNA) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is coordinating with the Myanmar government to provide safety to the Thai Embassy in Yangon and to inform Myanmar people that the murder case of two Myanmar men in Thailand has not yet completed. Thai Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sek Wannamethee told journalists of the update on Tuesday, saying that the Thai government is also monitoring overseas protests closely. The spokesman stated that the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs is closely monitoring demonstrations in Myanmar and, most recently, in Sri Lanka against a Thai court verdict on the two Myanmar nationals, who brutally murdered two British nationals on a beach of Koh Tao, a resort island in the Gulf of Thailand, last year. On Christmas Eve, the Samui provincial court in Surat Thani Province in the Thai South, sentenced to death the two Myanmar migrant workers, Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun, both 22, who were convicted of raping and murdering Hannah Witheridge and murdering David Miller, both 24-year-old British tourists. Their bodies were found on a beach of Koh Tao off Surat Thani on September 15, 2014. Demonstrations at the Thai Embassy in Yangon began soon after the Thai court's ruling, while a total of 72 Buddhist monks of Myanmar national also submitted a letter to the Thai Embassy to Sri Lanka on December 29, demanding a justice for the two convicts. No violence was reported during Monday's gathering and the monks dispersed to their temple peacefully after submitting the letter. According to the spokesman, the two Myanmar convicts can lodge an appeal against the Thai Court of First Instance's verdict. (TNA)