Re: 1000 Rapists are on the run in Thailand<zigtoc@rock . com > wrote in message
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> Police to go after 1,000 rape suspects
So, the police is going after Deckard who uses to travel to Pattaya to rape
13 old girls with his French mates ....
Good riddance, although I doubt he will be so reluctant to enter the Kingdom
knowing that the police is waiting for his arrival to explain some other
things like giving an anti-government lecture at a Bangkok university while
the country is under military power.
> Wanted on warrants going back 5 years
>
> WASSAYOS NGARMKHAM
>
> Police will crack down on more than 1,000 rape suspects wanted on
> arrest warrants in nine provinces surrounding Bangkok, to mark
> National Women's Day today. Pol Maj-Gen Wut Liptapanlop, deputy chief
> of Police Region 1, said the campaign against suspects who have fled
> since arrest warrants, dating back to 2002, were issued would be
> launched tomorrow, starting in Samut Prakan.
>
> He expected that at least 200 suspects would be caught in the two-
> month crackdown.
>
> It will be the first crackdown on rape suspects - one area of
> operations which police admit they have been lax to enforce.
>
> Previous police operations have focused mainly on other criminals,
> particularly hired gunmen and thieves, allowing suspects wanted on
> rape charges to avoid arrest.
>
> Pol Maj-Gen Wut said he has ordered police to prepare lists of
> warrants issued for the arrest of suspected rapists in nine provinces
> _ Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan, Ayutthaya, Pathum Thani, Ang Thong, Sing
> Buri, Chai Nat, Saraburi and Lop Buri.
>
> Figures showed that Samut Prakan had the highest number of rape cases,
> with more than 200 during the past five years, followed by Samut
> Prakan and Nonthaburi.
>
> Pol Maj-Gen Wut said the crackdown on rape suspects had to be launched
> urgently because more than 60% of the population in the nine provinces
> were women.
>
> More than 70% of the female population in these provinces work in
> factories, particularly in Samut Prakan, Nonthaburi and Pathum Thani,
> which are adjacent to Bangkok.
>
> If the suspects remain at large, female workers will be in danger, he
> said.
>
> Rape and sexual assault cases against women caused psychological harm
> to female workers, and affected businesses, some of which had
> relocated.
>
> Some foreign entrepreneurs had moved their production bases out of the
> country after their female employees were raped, he said.
>
> He said if rapes took place in provinces which housed a World Heritage
> site and historic places, such as Ayutthaya, this would drive tourists
> away and ruin the reputation of the country.
>
> Last Friday, Samut Prakan police arrested two men suspected of gang-
> raping an under-aged girl, and issued arrest warrants for three other
> suspects.
>
> Those five suspects were accused of luring a 16-year-old girl to a
> townhouse in the Pruksa 15 housing estate and gang-raping her on Feb
> 27.
>
> A female friend of the suspects videoed the rape, police said.
>