20 Thai Girls Still Missing In Southern Thailand

[george]

20 Thai girls still missing in southern Thailand

TAK BAI: -- Twenty female students from various sekolah pondok (village schools) in southern Thailand are among the 50 still missing after being involved in the tragedy in front of the Tak Bai police station on Oct 25.

Mingguan Malaysia reported that all the students, aged between 15 and 19, had not returned home after taking part in the protests held in front of the police station.

The weekly quoted Tak Bai community leader Mohamed Soleh as saying that efforts were underway to track the missing girls, including meeting the authorities on the matter.

“The Thai authorities failed to give a satisfactory answer about the disappearance of all 50 students including the 20 female students involved,” he told Mingguan Malaysia.

--The Star Online, MY, 2004-11-22

[kat]

Yes, the authorities failed to give a satisfactory answer because they know they are in deep shit and are trying to buy time before the world finds out that there were female students aged 15-20 among the dead.

[bodypaul]

Yes, the authorities failed to give a satisfactory answer because they know they are in deep shit and are trying to buy time before the world finds out that there were female students aged 15-20 among the dead.

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Yes This gets worse and worse!!

[RDN]

This is unbelievably bad. What will the world think of Thailand now if these poor girls really did die in the back of the trucks?

[Nam Kao]

These people atacked a police station trying to spring 6 terrorists

You reap what you sew

[eljeque]

And what is the penalty for "attacking a police station?" Is it death by suffication? The government is showing only its tamed-down film version and is trying to surpress the independent film showing the police firing into the crowds and stacking people in the trucks like sardines. If the people did in fact actually "attack" the police station, as you say, how in fact did they "attack" it. If they did "attack" it in such a way that would have made shooting into the crowd acceptable, then why is the Thai government trying to suppress this information and these films.

Surely, they Thai government would not behave in a manner that would be considered immoral or illegal, and then try to stop the nation's people and the world from seeing it.

Maybe you are too young to have missed Kent State.

[udon]

If you are in Oz at present or can rec SBS, there is a special documentary on this on Wed night, 24.11, at 20:30 E.D.T