Apolice investigation into the killing of a Lao exiled political activist in Ubon Ratchathani province on May 17 is moving quietly.
Even though the case involved the shooting death of an asylum seeker who held UN refugee status, police are seemingly treating the case as a homicide, not a systematic transnational human rights violation as it should be.
As a party state to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Thailand has a duty to give the case special treatment and ensure that a probe is independent, fair, transparent and done promptly.
