Kaeng Krachan National Park arrest: Karen activist 'never released'

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Karen activist 'never released'
Tanpisit Lerdbamrungchai
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- A POLICE PROBE into CCTV footage suggests that missing Karen activist Porlajee "Billy" Rakchongcharoen was never released following his arrest on a petty offence by Kaeng Krachan National Park officials, police investigators said on Monday.

Meanwhile, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) member Niran Pitakwatchara said the agency would soon ask for the Rights and Liberties Protection Department to provide witness protection for Billy's wife Pinnapa Prueksaphan.

During a meeting on Monday with the Rights Commission, Phetchaburi deputy chief Pol Col Traiwitch Namthongthai said the park's CCTV footage was key evidence that Billy was never released, and student trainees who had claimed Billy left the park on a motorcycle had also retracted this claim.

Traiwitch said police suspected three possible motives: Billy's complaint to police about park officials after homes of Karen residents at Bang Kloy were burnt; Billy's plan to file a petition calling for justice for Karen villagers; and photos and clips on Billy's cell-phone were evidence of park officials' cutting down trees.

Police told the commission they were still compiling evidence in the case and no suspect had been identified yet.

Traiwitch said police would inspect tree stumps and the whereabouts of logs, as well as check related documents from the park submitted to them and park supervisors.

Niran, in his capacity as chairman of the commission's subcommittee on civil and political rights, said he would also write to the Rights and Liberties Protection Department asking for Billy's wife Pinnapa to be protected. He would also write and asking for progress from the Department of Special Investigation probe after male human blood was discovered in a park official's car in October.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Karen-activist-never-released-30249034.html


-- The Nation 2014-12-03

[aussieinthailand]

If you rock the boat then it's highly likely that there will be a price to be paid,

Park officials will be in the firing line now, as they well should be as it's be long suspected they had some hand in Billy's "disappearance"

And now for some DNA testing of the blood found in the car of the park official???

[siampolee]

It certainly seems as if someone or their is a choral society who are singing a song or two regarding various activities carried out under the cloak of the police farce force here and now other bodies too.

Let us hope these revelations keep on coming and that the corruption is exposed even more and the culprits imprisoned or even executed for murders committed on others orders or at their own instigation.

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And this investigation get's the highest possible award for both ultra slowness and for being as vague as is absolutely possible.

[razer]

Man ... the Sicilian Mafia got nothing over the Thai law enforcement group.

[soalbundy]

''He was never released'' Nobody ever thought he was,except the RTP of course

[Bluespunk]

"Niran, in his capacity as chairman of the commission's subcommittee on civil and political rights, said he would also write to the Rights and Liberties Protection Department asking for Billy's wife Pinnapa to be protected."

He will write to them?

How about making a phone call right now {better still would have been before your press release} and getting people down there now?

[klauskunkel]

During a meeting on Monday with the Rights Commission, Phetchaburi deputy chief Pol Col Traiwitch Namthongthai said the park's CCTV footage was key evidence that Billy was never released

...and it took over half a year to reach this conclusion.

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And this investigation get's the highest possible award for both ultra slowness and for being as vague as is absolutely possible.

And the reporter never bothered to ask: 'If he wasn't released then where is he being held?"