South: Seriously injured man in chains seeks military help after beating by "poltician's son"

[webfact]

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath reported that a seriously injured man went to a military unit in Samnak Kham sub-dictrict of Sadao, Songkhla, telling how he had been kept chained up and assaulted by the son of a politician in the area.

 

The alleged assailant is the owner of a business producing fighting cows for the popular southern Thai sport of "chon wua". The injured man is an employee.

 

Maen, 33, was in chains on his hands and had bruises over his entire body including his eye and had been starved of food and water for two days.

 

He managed to get away by loosening his chains and somehow stealing a local's motorcycle and travelling the two kilometers to the army camp. 

 

He was given food and drink as army personnel assessed his injuries and cut off the chains from his hands.

He said that he had been ordered by the politician's son to bury a gun in a bamboo thicket but the gun was stolen and he was blamed. 

 

He was being punished as a result. 

 

Sadao police were contacted and he was taken to hospital where an xray revealed a broken arm. Doctors said he should stay in the hospital but he refused fearing that his boss would come looking for him.

 

He contacted a friend and fled the area telling no one where he was going and refusing to file a police report about what had happened to him. 

 

This all played out on Sunday evening in the district of Sadao that borders Malaysia. 

 

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[Pdavies99]

Amazing, not even National News?

 

I wonder is a cover up starting!

[Cake Monster]

There is nothing to cover up.

Nothing happened,

You hear me ? You know who I am ?

[ThailandRyan]

8 minutes ago, Cake Monster said:

There is nothing to cover up.

Nothing happened,

You hear me ? You know who I am ?

Don't you know who I am said the son of a famous former politician or maybe not who led a revolt and protest or maybe didn't in 2014.....

[Card]

Serves him right for making cows fight each other

[kidneyw]

Prawit needs to get on this.

[Aussieroaming]

Now he owes his boss a new chain and padlock. The only victim here is the owner of the stolen motorcycle. This beaten man is a criminal associate being punished.

[RichardColeman]

11 hours ago, webfact said:

He said that he had been ordered by the politician's son to bury a gun in a bamboo thicket but the gun was stolen and he was blamed. 

More likely he kept the gun to be used as bribery for evidence of a crime and came off worse

[jaywalker]

 

[austhai]

there are a lot of these cases here & will never be stopped as the victims fear not only their own life but also their family.

[hotchilli]

23 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai Rath reported that a seriously injured man went to a military unit in Samnak Kham sub-dictrict of Sadao, Songkhla, telling how he had been kept chained up and assaulted by the son of a politician in the area.

When does that new law about not torturing people come into affect? 

[Troy Tempest]

Seems there are Tw@ts everywhere.....

 

Thailand just seems to have more than it's fair share!

 

LOS...My @rse!

[Grumpy one]

If these fighting cows dug up the buried pistol, they may become Cows with Guns