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Getting the excuses lined up:

 

> government appeared to call into question the "behaviour" of the victims themselves

 

Some of those bad tourists behaving badly, so must be their fault they got themselves killed :dunno:

 

> Police had earlier said the pair had been seen partying at a local bar just hours before they died

 

Imagine that, people on holiday partying....

 

> But it is rare for tourists to be murdered in Thailand, although it is not uncommon for visitors to die accidentally

 

Tourists are not visitors????

 

> Somyot said it was assumed that the killer or killers would be local residents or migrant workers, as they would know where to acquire the murder weapon - a hoe

 

Must you know the secret handshake or have a decoder ring...

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Hi,

 

Not quite, just pointing out some of the PR that is mostly hidden.

 

Thing is, these people would come anyway, so if the Army made it easier for them to get registered (instead of being here illegal), isn't that a good thing?

 

"I'd be checking to see if any fishing boats were around at the time."

 

Good point.

 

Sanuk!

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Hi,

 

 

 

Thing is, these people would come anyway, so if the Army made it easier for them to get registered (instead of being here illegal), isn't that a good thing?

 

"I'd be checking to see if any fishing boats were around at the time."

 

Good point.

 

Sanuk!

 

Why is the army getting credit or criticism for the registration of migrants? That is a Thaksin project, circa 2004, I seem to remember registration of a couple million from MYA, CAM, LAO, some bitching about them having to pay a fee for health insurance and so on - I guess that project has continued to date in various forms.

 

YimSiam

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Police Misidentify Murdered Britons in CCTV Footage

BANGKOK — Police say they mistakenly identified two people in a photograph distributed to the media as the British tourists who were murdered on the popular island of Koh Tao on Monday.

Police initially said the still photograph taken from CCTV footage showed David Miller, 24, and Hanner Witheridge, 23, walking hand-in-hand away from a party on Haat Sai Ri Beach late Sunday night. The pair was later found naked and beaten to death on the beach at 6:30am on 15 September.

But Pol.Col. Prachum Ruengthong, a commander of Pha Ngan Police who oversees Koh Tao island, said today that the photograph did not in fact depict the two victims.

According to Pol.Col. Prachum, the officers in charge of CCTV investigation "made their own assumption" and misidentified the pair. The police currently have no CCTV footage of the victims, he added.

Police earlier insisted the image showed the two murder victims, following several requests for confirmation by Khaosod English.

"There has been a lot of information [given to the media] through many channels," Pol.Col. Prachum explained. "Each officer gave their own piece of information. From now on, I will be the only person who gives information."

However, Pol.Col. Prachum said the other image given to the media of a man who "behaved suspiciously" near where the bodies were found is still valid. Police are still searching for the man, he said.

According to the latest reports, two British men are also being treated as possible suspects. Earlier today, police cleared three male migrant workers from Myanmar who were initially held and questioned about the incident.

The misidentified photograph is one of several blunders made by Thai police and media reporting about the grisly murder case over the past few days.

Thai police previously gave unsubstantiated and bizarre statements about the murder, such as the claim that one of Mr. Miller's friends was a "gay man" who possibly committed the murder out of jealousy, and the announcement that the island had been "sealed off," whereas in reality boats were permitted to leave the docks normally.

These claims were widely reported by major Thai media agencies.

Police also made contradictory statements about a British friend of Mr. Miller, who was initially considered a suspect, then released after questioning and declared unrelated to the murder, only to be detained again as a potential suspect this morning.

Khaosod

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Looks like the police/Army are giving this some serious attention! Good on them!!

 

Thai police hunt 'prime suspect' in murder of British pair

 

http://news.yahoo.com/british-pair-found-murdered-thai-resort-island-police-090839277.html

 

Thai police on Wednesday identified a man caught on security camera as the "prime suspect" in the murder of two British tourists on a resort island, as detectives raised hopes that a post-mortem examination would yield valuable clues.

 

 

 

The man was seen on closed circuit television near a bar on Koh Tao island where David Miller, 24, and Hannah Witheridge, 23, were partying shortly before they were beaten to death early on Monday.

 

Local media reports said the man -- believed to be of Asian appearance -- was twice seen on camera, the first time passing the bar and later hurriedly returning from the direction where the bodies of the British pair were found behind some rocks.

"He is the prime suspect but we don't know his whereabouts yet," Kiattipong Khawsamang, Surat Thani provincial police commander, said, confirming the man in the CCTV footage was Asian.

 

Several Myanmar nationals working on the resort have already been quizzed over the killings, which have shocked the small community of travellers and residents on the normally tranquil resort island, a diving hot-spot near Koh Phangan in the Gulf of Thailand...

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