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200 policemen deployed to guard two Myanmar men on Koh Tao

KOH TAO: -- About 200 policemen were deployed to guard two Myanmar suspects during a reenactment of their alleged murder of two British tourists.

About 1,000 residents of Koh Tao turned up to look at the suspects during the reenactment at 11 am. Police had to stand surrounding the suspects to guard them.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/200-policemen-deployed-to-guard-two-Myanmar-men-on-30244684.html

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-- The Nation 2014-10-03

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Myanmar migrant workers taken for crime reenactment of murder of 2 British tourists amid tight security at Ko Tao in Surat Thani /MCOT

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Reenactment of two British nationals murders to be done today

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BANGKOK, Oct 3 -- National police chief Pol Gen Somyot Poompanmoung is scheduled to take two Myanmar nationals suspected of murdering two British tourists nearly three weeks ago for a reenactment at the crime scene on Ko Tao, the small island in the Gulf of Thailand and off the coast of the southern province of Surat Thani, on Friday.

More than 200 anti-riot and plainclothes police will be deployed during the reenactment which will be held after a press conference.

Police said a third Myanmar man, believed to be a close friend of those two suspects, will be asked to stand as a witness because he did not join in the rape and murder.

The reenactment of the crime will be held after police said results of DNA tests on semen found on Hannah Victoria Witheridge, 23, matched with the two suspects.

Ms Witheridge and David William Miller, 24, were brutally murdered on a Ko Tao beach early on September 15.

Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister/Defence Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan told journalists that the suspects were "not scapegoats" and evidence obtained by police showed that they were connected with the murder.

Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha said he had received information from the police that three Myanmar nationals had been arrested by police. (MCOT online news)

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-- TNA 2014-10-03

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Where are all the Western feminists and Social Justice Warriors when you need them?

The same "gap year" girls who want to "just have some fun" binge drinking and taking hits of acid at the full-moon parties are nowhere to be seen.

Instead of hiring a lawyer for these three men who have obviously been tortured, the feminists and their Western media allies are focusing on "Campus Rape" and "Yes can still mean No."

Where is the outrage from the same type of people who support this island's economy?

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Thai police charge Myanmar men with murder, rape of Brit tourists
Bangkok, Thailand | AFP |

BANGKOK: -- Thai police Friday charged two Myanmar men with murder and rape after the killing of two British tourists on a southern island last month, in a case that has severely dented the kingdom's image as a holiday haven.

The charges come after police said the undocumented migrant workers had confessed to murdering David Miller, 24, and Hannah Witheridge, 23, whose battered bodies were found on Koh Tao on September 15.

The men have been charged with the murder of both Britons -- a charge which carries the death penalty -- and the gang rape of Witheridge, with police saying that their DNA matched samples taken from her body.

"The two Myanmar nationals are charged with murder (of both tourists), gang rape (of Witheridge) and stealing," Prachum Ruangthong, police chief of neighbouring Koh Phangan island, told AFP.

The breakthrough follows intense scrutiny of Thai authorities, which had been accused -- in criticism led by the British media -- of bungling the investigation in the days after the crime.

Earlier Friday police said the two men, who now face the death penalty for the charge of murder, had admitted to killing the Britons and raping Witheridge.

"Two Myanmar suspects have confessed to killing the pair," Thai national police chief Somyot Poompanmoung told AFP. "DNA test results (from the two men) confirmed that the same DNA was found in the body of the (female) victim."

The two men were among three nationals from Myanmar -- formerly known as Burma -- held since Thursday on suspicion of involvement in the crime.

The third suspect is believed to be a witness and is currently under police protection on Koh Tao, provincial police chief Kiattipong Khaosamang told AFP.

The two Myanmar men, whose names police were unable to confirm, were taken to the island by investigators to recreate the crime scene Friday, a common practice in Thai murder cases.

Hundreds of onlookers watched as the handcuffed men -- wearing bullet-proof vests and white helmets -- walked along the beach where the Britons were found dead, surrounded by scores of police officers on the normally tranquil island.

"Both men raped the female victim," Kiattipong said earlier, adding the British pair were killed with a wooden stick and a garden hoe, which was found bloodied at the scene.

Thai authorities dismissed concerns that they have arrested scapegoats when questioned by reporters.

"Please be reassured that police have worked to their best ability so it's not possible that they have arrested scapegoats," Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon said Friday.


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In the weeks since the crime, police have DNA-tested hundreds of people in and around Koh Tao and questioned dozens of people -- including friends of Miller.

They had come under intense pressure to solve the case after being criticised for mismanaging the probe by chasing the wrong leads and failing to lock down the island in the hours following the killings.

Journalists were allowed to trample all over the crime scene hours after the murders, while information -- often erroneous -- flowed out unfiltered until the intervention of the nation's top police officer.

The grisly double murders have delivered a fresh blow to Thailand's image as a tourist haven after months of political protests that ended in May's army coup.

Days after the murders, Thailand's gruff junta chief was forced into an apology after he suggested tourists in bikinis could be more vulnerable to attack -- comments that caused an international outcry.

With the peak tourist season fast approaching, Thai authorities are desperate to draw a line under the incident.

"I think the tourist confidence will improve," Minister of Tourism and Sports Kobkarn Wattanavarangkul told AFP, hours after the purported confessions.

Thailand's once-booming tourism industry was already scrambling to rebound from a slump in foreign visitor numbers after the coup and a night-time curfew tarnished its reputation as the "Land of Smiles".

The tourism ministry has estimated a more than eight percent drop in revenue from tourism this year -- down from 1.2 trillion baht ($37 billion) in 2013 to 1.1 trillion baht this year.

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-- (c) Copyright AFP 2014-10-03

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Maybe, they need protection from the police?

Henry Bolte liked a good hanging; he was the last Government in Victoria, Oz to organise a hanging during his reign as the state premier. And guess what, he got re-elected.

This case although very sad for the victims and their families, has episodes appearing in the press as being less than competent by the officials conducting the investigation. So the revelation of these 3 as the culprits leaves a sense of doubt in my mind. I hope they have caught the right people, but if they have been stitched up to satisfy the need to show the police are capable of finding the killers, it would be sad for all.

The person or persons that did this grusome act, need to be put away.

Well sending these guys through the court system, a guilty verdict will be assured. Legal representation will be what they can afford?

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Two hundred cops to protest them from who?

Dog and pony show, boy they really are scared for these poor 3 boys lives, bull,

They don't want to let the boys to have a chance to signal a friend or media with, I'M BEING FRAMED outburst.

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