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    Angry mahout assaults elephant tusk thieves

    A prime suspect in the elephant tusk theft in Ayutthaya was bodily assaulted by an angry mahout as three suspects were brought to reenact their crime Friday for the second time after yesterday’s cancellation due to threat by mahouts and residents.

    Police brought the suspects to reenact how they poisoned and cut the tusks of the 50-year-old elephant “Plai Khlao” in Ayutthaya.

    More than 100 police officers were called in to guard Mr Panya Srijamdee, Mr Manote Dokmaikaew and Narongrit Srichamdee to an elephant corral in Suan Prik sub-district to re-enact their crime

    However they confronted again with angry local residents and mahouts.

    Mr Laithongrien Meepan, a mahout and an owner of an elephant camp in Ayutthaya, bodily assault one of the suspects, prompting the police to bring all the suspects back to police vehicles.

    The police then found themselves surrounded by the angry mob and two bull elephants. They had to negotiate with representatives of angry crowd before they were able to leave the scene safely.

    Later the reenactment was conducted hastily as the police feared the mahout would return with their elephants to lynch the three suspects.

    Angry mahout assaults elephant tusk thieves | Thai PBS English News

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    Power to the people, hang the thieving fucks.

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    Great to see the Thais taking their revenge on these poaching scum.

    Here's more information from a BP article:

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    Police arrest 3 men over jumbo slaying
    July 18, 2014

    Police yesterday arrested three men who allegedly poisoned a 50-year-old bull elephant to death for its tusks in Ayutthaya last week.

    The suspects were identified as former teacher Panya Srijamdee, 60, Manot Dokmaikeaw, 23, and Narongdej Srijamdee, 32. The three are from Suphan Buri province, Pol Maj Gen Sriwara Rungsipharmnakul, acting commissioner of Provincial Police Bureau 1 said.

    The suspects were caught in different locations. Mr Panya was apprehended at his house in Doembang Nangbuat district of Suphan Buri; Mr Manot at a construction site in Ayutthaya’s Uthai district; and Mr Narongdej at his wife’s house in Rayong province.

    During the announcement of their arrest at a press conference yesterday in Ayutthaya, Panya and Mr Manot showed police the bull’s tusks, weighing 19kg, which police said they had sawn off Khlao, the elephant they allegedly poisoned to death.

    Police said the two men told them they had been hired by a customer to find elephant tusks. They spotted Khlao being tied to a tree by the Lop Buri River last Friday and thought they had found easy prey.

    Panya was responsible for poisoning the bull to death, Mr Manot cut off its tusks and Mr Narongdej drove a pickup truck which transported the tusks to be hidden near a house in Suphan Buri, police said.

    The suspects said they usually hunted wild animals to order for customers in Yaowarat, according to police.

    Panya was arrested for poisoning a Bengal tiger to death near Bueng Chawak lake in Suphan Buri in 2010 and was sentenced to a year and six months in jail. However, he escaped after his conviction and has been on the run ever since, police said.

    The suspects were brought to the scene where the bull elephant was killed in Ayutthaya for a re-enactment yesterday evening. However, the re-enactment was later cancelled as angry mahouts with at least 10 elephants as well as hundreds of locals tried to attack the three men.

    Laithongrian Meephan, the owner of the Ayutthaya Royal Elephant Kraal, or Wang Chang Ayutthaya Lae Paniat, in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya district, called for tougher laws against cruelty to and the killing of wild animals.

    He demanded there be harsher penalties for repeat offenders.

    Pol Gen Chalermkriet Sriworakhan, a police inspector-general, said police officers will expand their investigation to find the mastermind behind the killing of the elephant.

    Khlao had appeared in the Hollywood blockbuster Alexander and performed in a royal event. His tusks are estimated to be worth about a million baht.

    Authorities believed the jumbo, weighing 4.9 tonnes, was poisoned with a strong toxic substance as the bull elephant was thought to have collapsed quickly after ingesting it.

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    With a bit of luck they will get stitched up when jailed.

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    I'm not sure which is going to be worse for them, being jailed or set free. Give them a suspended sentence so that everyone knows they're guilty and let them walk out of the courtroom "free men".

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    Wish they would stop calling people ' suspects ' in cases like this.

    Nothing suspect about it if they have confessed and are re enacting the crime.

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    Nothing suspect about it if they have confessed and are re enacting the crime.
    Thai police have a history of assaulting or coercing suspects to confess while in police custody. Last week, a viral video showed a police officer smacking the head of a rape and murder suspect, apparently during interrogation.
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    The Thai are certainly hooked up on these puerile re-enactments. Presumably, they don't know yet how to take a sworn deposition in the presence of a lawyer which is recorded by video tape.

    Silly pointing and a pantomime show in public. Pitiful really but what else does one expect from such a primitive society.

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    Quote Originally Posted by peterpan View Post
    Power to the people, hang the thieving fucks.
    Real community justice....
    The way it should be.

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    Cutting elephant tusks should result in these scumbags having their all their own teeth forcibly removed sans anesthetic by the mahouts, acting on behalf of the elephant.

    That is justice!

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