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...Human Rights Commission has received dozens of complaints from people who say their enemies have erroneously told police they are dealers. Others have apparently taken direct action against petty rivals or estranged business partners. "It's a license to kill for personal vendettas or disputes over illegal businesses," says Sunai Phasuk of Forum Asia...
...police compound in the nearby town of Suan Phung, they soon found themselves exchanging bewildered stares with Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai and a dozen of Thailand's top generals. As Chuan inspected his prizes, he gently stroked the boys' lice-ridden locks. "He totally demystified them," says Sunai Phasuk, of Forum Asia, a human-rights group. In Thailand, where people still crawl before royalty, "you don't pat a god on the head...
There is a church in the twins' village, and both Johnny and Luther are Baptists who claim to base their moral guidelines on Christian beliefs. But "when their soldiers died in the struggle against the Burmese, they moved backward to the old gods," says Sunai Phasuk of Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University. Christian teachings combined seamlessly with ancient native messianic traditions to build up belief in the twins' mystical powers...