Word: neelahphaijit
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...community leaders. Instead, Thaksin gave sole responsibility for public security to the police, who are reviled by the Muslims because they consider the cops corrupt and insensitive to Islamic customs. Widespread arrests and mysterious disappearances soon followed. One notorious case was the recent and still unsolved disappearance of Somchai Neelahphaijit, a Muslim lawyer who was defending four men accused of membership in JI. Four policemen have been detained as suspects in his disappearance, but no charges have been filed. In recent months, says Kraisak Choonhavan, head of the Senate committee on foreign affairs: "The police have arrested...
...being marginalized, Thaksin traveled to the violence-plagued region last week to unveil a $300 million economic-aid package. But whatever credit Thaksin received for this development initiative he soon lost when reporters grilled him about another issue galvanizing the south: the disappearance of prominent Muslim lawyer Somchai Neelahphaijit. Somchai, a father of five, had vanished after going to a Bangkok hotel on March 12 to meet a client. A few days later his Honda Civic?showing signs that it had been rammed by another car?was found abandoned in a parking...
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