Word: boonchuay
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...after midnight on Feb. 1, moments after the launch of a three-month government campaign to rid the country of narcotics. Jay's parents were small-time dealers in their village of Ban Rai, in western Ratchaburi province. His mother, Yupin, was reportedly on a police blacklist. Her husband, Boonchuay, spent 18 months in jail for possession of amphetamine pills, known in Thai as ya ba, or crazy medicine. On Jan. 31, the family spent the evening playing fairground games at a local temple. As they clambered onto their motorcycle to head home?Jay perched in front of his father...
...Barely 200 meters from the Buddhist temple, two black-garbed men in ski masks pulled up alongside on another motorcycle. The one riding pillion shot Jay's mother dead. Boonchuay tried to speed away, but the gunman kept firing until Boonchuay's motorcycle careened onto the pavement. Bleeding on the road, he shouted at his son to run. The boy scrambled over a fence. As he cowered in the darkness, he saw the gunman put a bullet in his father's head...
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