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| Author: | Davis, A. |
| Title: | Bang for the baht |
| Journal: | Asiaweek
1997 : MAR 28, VOL. 23:12, p. 36-49 |
| Index terms: | ASIA POWER THAILAND |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Thailand's hitmen are busy these days, killing business people. Their orders come from some very powerful people. The men who do the dirty work for an all-too-respectable criminal elite usually take the rap. They rarely meet their employers or know whose lives they are extinguishing. It's an unforgiving profession but one not without catchet. The hired guns draw on the time-honored rural tradition of the nak leng, swaggering tough guys with their own code of loyalty and honor, half-mobster, half-Robin Hood. |
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