Gang kills warder for refusing to move drugs

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Gang kills warder for refusing to move drugs

Published: 19 Aug 2012 at 00.00
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A warder at Nakhon Si Thammarat prison was shot dead yesterday after he refused to cooperate with a drug gang, police said.

Od Sae Pua, 49, was shot and killed on a road in Nakhon Si Thammarat's Phra Phom district.

He had left the prison early yesterday morning and was riding his motorcycle home when he was attacked.

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Discussion 14 : 19 Aug 2012 at 22.2914
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ref disc 10

he is in hiding, because he et.al. talk but never deliver.
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Discussion 13 : 19 Aug 2012 at 22.2213
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Drugs are provided and consumed in most prisons of this world (or why do you think there are needle-automats in many european prisons since the upcoming of AIDS?), of course the guards and or lawyers must be the enablers.

But this case looks like the drug gangs are fully in cohoots with the higher authorities and therefore honest guards are endangered, as are most other 'informers' about crime/corruption in Thailand.

As always it boils down to the fact that no governement in Thailand is willing to seriously attack crime and corruption, and/or protect honest citizens when exposing the ill-doings of the higher ups.
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Discussion 12 : 19 Aug 2012 at 21.3412
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I dont agree that Police are corrupt because they don't get enough .Other government agencies are no where near as corrupt as the police in the public's eye . I believe they are corrupt because they know they can get away with it .They abuse the power given to them and instead collect money for allowing criminals to flourish .No sympathy here .Clean up the Police and then we can talk about raises .
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Discussion 11 : 19 Aug 2012 at 19.3211
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This is what happened in a country riddle with corruption...
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Discussion 10 : 19 Aug 2012 at 16.5210
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Mr. Chalerm, where are you? There is some action needed. What about resolving this issue within 3 months?
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Discussion 9 : 19 Aug 2012 at 12.189
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I guess it will be very difficult for normal prison guards to be honest. The have a lower risk if they work for the drug gangs and they will also get some extra money. We can only speculate what would happen if a guard tells his superior about the drugs. I would not bet that he will receive any help. And if a guard would go to the police outside I also don’t see much of a chance that much good will happen. And just in case he goes to the media and just in case they would publish his story I guess his life expectancy will go down very rapidly. Summary: Honest people should look for another job – sad but true.
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Discussion 8 : 19 Aug 2012 at 11.498
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You are partly wrong, the main reason why this police people are so corrupt is they dont get paid to have a orderly life. Its the state who dont pay them, so what should they do? They take the money into their own pocket and dont deliver it "upstream" thats somehow normal. There was a good article in the BP some time ago when they interviewed a police guy and it came out that Bangkok dont even give them enough to pay for the petrol of the patrol cars and that goes through all. The problem are not the policemen, the problem is in Bangkok and the centralized structure of the state. This is a structure which was up to the 18. Century, a modern state functions differently. Of course Bangkok dont want to change this because the corrupts there would get less money into the pocket. You also can see that all "megaprojects" are done in the Bangkok area because this is the way they can control the kickbacks if this is not in the Capital no money for them, etc. ect.
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Discussion 7 : 19 Aug 2012 at 11.147
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The reality seems to e that the drug trade is so well established even in prison that the prisoners can punish the guards instead of the other way around .I dont think prisoners would have time to sell and take drugs if they were in work camps all day instead of sitting doing nothing .
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Discussion 6 : 19 Aug 2012 at 10.396
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My sympathy is with the family of the murdered official. However, is not this "instant verdict" of 'innocent official killed by drug lords' a little too convenient?
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Discussion 5 : 19 Aug 2012 at 10.255
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How do decent prison employees get protected from corrupt officials and the drug lords. This probably happens in other countries as well however there seems to be no action to improve the situation here.
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