Thai elections revive drug war controversy

Thai elections revive drug war controversy – AFP, June 24, 2011
…”I wish I could kill them,” food vendor Somporn said of the former prime minister and the policemen he blames for the death of his son, found tied to a tree in a public park in the northeastern town of Kalasin.
Pravit Sattawut died seven years ago, aged 21 — killed, rights groups suspect, by the town’s police as part of Thaksin’s notorious crackdown on drugs, which outraged critics for its alleged extrajudicial murders and abuses…