Commutation for ‘Death Island’ Burmese Suspects a Mockery

The two should have been freed long ago

The commutation by Thailand’s king of the death sentence to life imprisonment for two Myanmar migrants for the 2014 murders of British backpackers on the island of Ko Tao is only a partial victory in a case in which the migrants should never been convicted in the first place, which critics called a travesty of justice to protect the clan that controls t…