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Thailand to reinvestigate decade-old murders of five Saudi men
Thailand has announced that it will reinvestigate the unsolved murders of five Saudi men including three diplomats in Bangkok more than a decade ago, which have soured relations between the two countries.
Thailand's Justice Department said the chief state prosecutor will set up a panel comprising department investigators and detectives from the police department.
In the first slaying, a third secretary at the Saudi Embassy was shot to death in front of his home in Bangkok in 1989 and in the second two Saudi diplomats and a Saudi Embassy telex operator were executed in their cars in 1990.
A Bangkok-based Saudi businessman, who was in the car with one of the slain diplomats, disappeared.
Riyadh believes the deaths were linked to the theft of dlrs 2 million of royal jewelry from a Saudi prince by a Thai worker in 1989.
14/12/01 5:08:07 | ABC Radio Australia News
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