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Subject: Re: NEWS - Thailand executes first woman in two decades

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Dear Friends,

slowly I think of a change of the name and aims of my group. What
Thailand does with Burmese people inside their country as scarcely
better than Burma. It is time to take a much more closer look on the
Thai human rights than ever before.

Metta
Heiko

Rangoon Post Co-Editor wrote:
> 
> Thailand executes first woman in two decades
> 
> 
> BANGKOK, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Thailand has executed its first female
> prisoner in two decades, bringing the total number of death sentences it
> has carried out this year to 17.
> 
> Samai Pan-intara, 59, a convicted drug trafficker, was executed by
> machinegun at Bang Khwang maximum security prison on Tuesday along with
> two convicted murderers, one a Myanmar national.
> 
> She was arrested with 4 kg (9 lb) of heroin in 1994.
> 
> A prison official said she was the first woman to be executed in
> Thailand for 20 years.
> 
> The two men shot were Prayuth Pholpanthu, 38, convicted of killing a
> hospital director and a doctor in 1993, and Myanmar national Htaho Pauy,
> who killed four members of his employer's family with an axe in 1996.
> 
> Officials said there were a further 40 inmates on death row at Bang
> Khwang, on the outskirts of Bangkok, the only prison in Thailand where
> executions are carried out.
> 
> Thailand resumed executions in 1996 after a break of nine years.
> 
> Human rights groups have expressed concern at the rising rate of Thai
> executions.
> 
> 21:56 11-23-99

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