Thai men freed after stroll into Malaysia

[Lite Beer]

Thai men freed after stroll into Malaysia
Nakarin Chinworakomon

The Sunday Nation

YALA: -- Five men from Yala who reportedly got lost in the jungle and wandered into Malaysia on April 17 were freed yesterday.

After the Than To villagers' release by Malaysia, Thai authorities questioned them in front of community leaders to understand how they had wandered over the border.

Following their capture, Army Region 4 chief Lt-General Walit Rojanapakdee instructed officials to co-ordinate with Malaysian authorities and explain that the illegal entry stemmed from the five getting lost.

Than To villagers alerted the media after the five were arrested.

The men, carrying two shotguns, were reportedly hunting in the border jungle when two people in their group got lost and the other three got lost looking for them. They were three kilometres inside Malaysia when arrested.

They were reportedly sent to the Ban Din Samer border patrol joint checkpoint in Than To before being sent to a detention centre at a Malaysian army base near the border.

The Thais - Surapoj Roddoung, 40, Nares Supasit, 48, Somchai Kraidam, 48, and two boys aged 17 and 15 - were originally scheduled to be transferred to Kedah State tomorrow

-- The Nation 2014-04-20

[geovalin]

Lucky are Thai trespassers (with guns, by the way) in Malaysia.

Cambodian trespassers in Thailand are just shot like rabbits by Thai army.

[Loles]

something is fishy well as usually in the southern stories

[Dibbler]

Lucky are Thai trespassers (with guns, by the way) in Malaysia.

Cambodian trespassers in Thailand are just shot like rabbits by Thai army.

Had they ventured inside Cambodia, Lao or Myanmar with guns they might well have been shot too! Thai and Lao poachers have cleaned out rhinos, Asian elephants and tigers, and other protected animals and aloewood (may hom) along the border and well inside the forests in Malaysia. I hope they are given a hiding before they are returned to Thailand but probably they'll just be handed back, and will be back in the forest in a few days. Nice example they have set for the young people in the group.

[SeaVisionBurma]

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[ggt]

Good thing they did not stray into N. Korea...would likely never see the light of day again...

[semester]

Lucky are Thai trespassers (with guns, by the way) in Malaysia.

Cambodian trespassers in Thailand are just shot like rabbits by Thai army.

Unarmed Thai trespassers in Cambodia are given 8 and 6 year prison sentences.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-12338147

[Gonsalviz]

Happens all the time. Guns are maybe what got these stopped. Where the train stops at Sadao, the cross all the time. Bicycles, walking, whatever they can get between the fence and trai tracks.