Coverage here also:
https://news.sky.com/story/concrete-filled-bodies-found-in-thailand-are-aides-of-missing-activist-police-say-11614992Laos: Investigate Disappearance of 3 Thai Dissidents
Battered Corpses in Mekong River Identified as Missing Activists
(New York) – The Lao government should urgently investigate the disappearance of three Thai political activists who were last seen in the capital, Vientiane, in December 2018, Human Rights Watch said today. On January 22, 2019, Thai authorities told Human Rights Watch that DNA samples from the bodies found in the Mekong River matched two of the missing activists, Phu Chana and Kasalong.
Prominent Thai anti-monarchist Surachai Danwattananusorn, 78, and two close aides, known as Phu Chana, 54, and Kasalong, 47, were last seen in Vientiane on December 11, 2018. Their colleagues promptly reported the disappearances to Lao authorities.
The identification of Phu Chana and Kasalong’s bodies, found on December 26 and 27 respectively, raised grave concerns for Surachai, Human Rights Watch said. The two bodies’ hands and feet were bound and their faces smashed beyond recognition. They also both had been disemboweled and stuffed with concrete.
Read more at: https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/01/22/laos-investigate-disappearance-3-thai-dissidents
This is an odd story, I can not clearly tell where the blame should lie, with Thailand or with Laos. Maybe the government of Laos is looking the other way as the Thai government might have knocked them off in Laos.
