Men posing as Thai police kidnap and rob newlywed

June 24, 2009

WCRP: Five Bangkok men posed as Thai police before kidnapping and robbing a 20-year-old girl. She had only been married 20 days.

One night in May, at around 3 a.m., the group of five men came to the apartment where a Burmese migrant worker family was living. They broke down the door and searched for money in the room.

According to one neighbor, “they came into her room to find the money. They took her money, 7,000 baht, and one mobile phone. And then they kidnapped the girl for two days. After that, they left her near her apartment alone and she went back on foot. Nobody could fight them, because they had guns and knives. If we fought they would have killed us.”

The girl, who wishes to remain anonymous, is from Kawgo village, Karen State, and works with her husband at a construction site in Bangkok.
“When we talked to the boss, he said he would not contact the Thai police because he also afraid of the group of Thai men,” said one man who work with the victims.

“Now many people face problems like this in Thailand. Because Thai people oppress the Burma migrant worker in Thailand,” he added.

A similar case occurred with a twelve-year-old Burmese migrant child in Minburi Sub-district, Bangkok. Sources told WCRP that she was gang-raped by five other Thai men posing as police.

Written by HURFOM · Filed Under News