Last Updated: Friday, February 15, 2008 | 9:46 AM MTCBC NewsThailand’s human rights commission has publish a report suggesting Thai police botched their investigation into a Calgary man’s shooting death last month.Leo Del Pinto, 24, (below) was shot and killed after an altercation with an off-duty Thai police officer in the northern town of Pai […]
We have been following the articles and news updates written by Andrew Drummond, along with reader comments through Letters to the Editor and various Thai blogs. Some people are calling Andrew Drummond a ‘sensationalist’, which could not be further from the truth. The true sensationalists are the ones who are claiming there are no safety […]
The National Human Rights Committee and DSI officials have relocated Canadian Carly Reisig, who was shot by a policeman in Pai last month after all her belongings were stolen, apparently when she was in hospital.National Human Rights Commissioner Surasee Kosolnavin said he believed neither Reisig, from Chilliwack, B.C. or her boyfriend Rattaporn Varavadee, 36, ‘Fune’ […]
SHOOTING DEATHPolice tale fabricated: PornthipNHRC wants DSI to take over Pai inquiry publish on February 9, 2008Top forensic doctor Pornthip Rojanasunan has rejected the police account of the shooting of two Canadians, one of whom was killed, in the northern town of Pai last month.Pornthip has been studying post mortems carried out both in Calgary, […]
Damning new evidence has emerged in the case of two Canadians shot by a policeman in the northern town of Pai last month after two eye-witnesses to the drama sought protection from the National Human Rights Commission.The witnesses, (pictured with Human Rights Commissioner Surasee Kosolnavin and DSI Colonel Piyawate Kingkate) a young man and woman […]
From The TimesJune 4, 2004Jungle tribes losing war against loggersFrom Andrew Drummond in Upper Baram, SarawakIn former days the people here would have taken heads with machetes in retaliation for what has happened to their land and livelihood.But at a dayak longhouse 160 miles up the Baram River in Sarawak, Borneo, a headhunter’s descendant in […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITORLast week The Nation newspaper publish an account by myself in the aftermath of the shooting of two young Canadians in Chiang Mai. This article included some of the history of Carly Reisig during her stay in Mae Hong Son’s Pai district. This included the facts that she had hit a policeman […]
From The TimesMay 11, 2004Powerful man of eastern promisesA look at the man behind the bid to buy into LiverpoolFrom Andrew Drummond in BangkokTHE rise to power of Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand’s Prime Minister, three years ago was secured by projecting himself as a patriotic, iron-fisted, man of the people.His promises to slash rural poverty, set […]
From The Sun and the Daily Star, January 11 2008 Pictures by Reuters and Andrew Chant Of course as this frog is in a Catatonic state the video is not quite so good!Hopper on a chopper! Spawn to be wild, Going down the old frog and toad! Rev it! Rev it! – a good day for […]
Villagers contradict Canadian girl’s story – CBCPai Shooting Analysis – The NationCanadian Carly Reisig, who witnessed her best friend being shot to death by a Thai policeman before being shot herself, last night defended herself from reports that she had been a ‘troublemaker’ in the murder village.But she admitted that she had been involved in […]
Andrew Drummond is a British independent journalist and occasional television documentary maker. He is a former Fleet Street, London, journalist having worked at the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Observer and The Times.