Posted on 04/18/2021 8:58:09 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date a decade ago, Thailand machine-gunned in Bangkwang Prison five men — four convicted drug-smugglers, and one murderer.
Bazillionaire populist Thaksin Sinawatra had just become the country’s Prime Minister, and would soon stake his administration on a notorious drug suppression push that would be linked to 2,000-plus extrajudicial killings....
According to the BBC, one of the traffickers had been caught with 50,000 methamphetamine pills — meth being the rising drug problem (pdf) du jour — and another with 30 kilos of heroin....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Thailand?
We don’t need no stinking bump stocks.
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