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Thai Backpacker Murder Trial Under a Cloud

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Jul 08, 2015
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The trial of two 21-year-old Burmese migrant workers is set to get underway tomorrow [July 8] for the killings of two British backpackers, Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, on Sept. 15 last year.

The Thai justice system is as much on trial as the two migrants, Htun Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo, who were collected up by Thailand’s notoriously corrupt and inept …

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