"Khunying Pornthip Rojanasunan, director of the Central Institute of Forensic Science, Wednesday urged relatives to allow her to exhume bodies of 11 Muslims massacred at a local mosque for checking bullets on them.
Porntip visited the Al Furqan mosque where 11 Muslim people were shot and killed while praying.
Local people alleged that security officials were the attackers while the government argued that the Muslim insurgents were behind the massacre and blamed it on the government.
Porntip said spent shells left at the scene hardly provided traces to the assailants.She said she needed to check the bullets left on the bodies of the victims for tracing to the attackers."
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Pornthip wants to exhume mosque victims
Started by Kirkland, Jun 24 2009 07:54 PM
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Posted 25 June 2009 - 09:48 AM
"Relatives of those massacred in a mosque in Cho Airong district have rejected forensic expert Khunying Porntip Rojanasunan's call to exhume the bodies so the bullets can be removed for examination. They shook their heads in disagreement when the director of the Central Institute of Forensic Science said she wanted to do autopsies to help trace the unidentified killers.
Many Muslims in the South believe the attack was orchestrated by security officers.
Uyisa Duerama, whose father was among the 10 killed during prayers at the Al-Furqan mosque, questioned why the authorities did not examine the bullets found in the bodies of the 12 people who were injured in the attack. They are being treated at Narathiwat Hospital.
''Under Islamic tradition, unearthing a body to carry out an autopsy is not appropriate. It only dishonours the dead,'' said Ms Uyisa. She expressed her opposition to Khunying Porntip and 4th Army Region commander Pichet Visaijorn when they visited Ai Payae village yesterday. She also complained authorities were taking too long to find the killers as the mosque shooting occurred on June 8. ''Sixteen days have passed with no hope,'' she said.
Khunying Porntip said she had suggested exhuming the bodies as she was once asked by officials in Indonesia's Aceh region, an Islamic territory, to carry out an autopsy on separatists killed during a battle against Indonesian government forces.Police said notches or grooves left on the bullets could trace the weapons and eventually the owners who tend to use them in many attacks.
Many of the victims' families who complained about slow progress in the investigation raised doubts about whether the authorities would be able to bring the killers to justice even if they identified them. ''Who can guarantee officers will be able to arrest those criminals?'' asked Angkhana Neelaphaijit, the chairwoman of the Working Group for Justice and Peace. ''Similar attacks have occurred before and officers have failed to catch the perpetrators.''
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Many Muslims in the South believe the attack was orchestrated by security officers.
Uyisa Duerama, whose father was among the 10 killed during prayers at the Al-Furqan mosque, questioned why the authorities did not examine the bullets found in the bodies of the 12 people who were injured in the attack. They are being treated at Narathiwat Hospital.
''Under Islamic tradition, unearthing a body to carry out an autopsy is not appropriate. It only dishonours the dead,'' said Ms Uyisa. She expressed her opposition to Khunying Porntip and 4th Army Region commander Pichet Visaijorn when they visited Ai Payae village yesterday. She also complained authorities were taking too long to find the killers as the mosque shooting occurred on June 8. ''Sixteen days have passed with no hope,'' she said.
Khunying Porntip said she had suggested exhuming the bodies as she was once asked by officials in Indonesia's Aceh region, an Islamic territory, to carry out an autopsy on separatists killed during a battle against Indonesian government forces.Police said notches or grooves left on the bullets could trace the weapons and eventually the owners who tend to use them in many attacks.
Many of the victims' families who complained about slow progress in the investigation raised doubts about whether the authorities would be able to bring the killers to justice even if they identified them. ''Who can guarantee officers will be able to arrest those criminals?'' asked Angkhana Neelaphaijit, the chairwoman of the Working Group for Justice and Peace. ''Similar attacks have occurred before and officers have failed to catch the perpetrators.''
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Posted 25 June 2009 - 11:40 AM
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why the authorities did not examine the bullets found in the bodies of the 12 people who were injured in the attack. They are being treated at Narathiwat Hospital.
Because these are the same authorities that announced a few days ago that some magical DNA tests proved no one employed by the government was involved in the massacre. All the same, it certainly is an interesting question why Khun Pornthip has apparently not examined the bullets found in wounded people. Wouldn't you start there and then dig up the dead, only if necessary.
