Execution date set for Mekong drug gang
Source: Xinhua |
February 28, 2013, Thursday
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MYANMAR drug lord Naw Kham and three of his accomplices, who were convicted of murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River in 2011, will be executed tomorrow.
They will be given lethal injections in Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan Province, Kunming Intermediate People's Court said yesterday.
The three accomplices were named as Hsang Kham from Thailand, Yi Lai, stateless, and Zha Xika, a Laotian.
The court has arranged for the consulates of Thailand and Myanmar in Kunming, as well as the convicts' relatives, to meet with the men.
After the execution, the court will hand over their remains, wills and personal belongings to relatives or consulates.
Naw Kham and his gang were found to have masterminded and colluded with Thai soldiers in an attack on two Chinese cargo ships, the Hua Ping and Yu Xing 8, on October 5, 2011, on the Mekong River. Under Naw Kham's instructions, several of his gang members were also found to have kidnapped Chinese sailors and hijacked cargo ships for ransom.
The gang was broken up in early 2012 in a joint operation by police from China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand after the murders triggered calls to rein in crime in the border region.
Naw Kham and the three gang members were sentenced to death on November 6.
Two other members of Naw Kham's gang, Zha Bo and Zha Tuobo, received a death sentence with reprieve and eight years in prison, respectively.
Dubbed "the Godfather," Naw Kham was boss of the largest armed drug trafficking gang on the river which flows through China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
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