February 6, 2008
BANGKOK - Four Myanmar migrant workers have been killed execution-style on a rubber plantation in southern Thailand, police said Tuesday.
Two men and two women were bound with their hands behind their backs and shot at point blank range in Surat Thani, about 650 kilometres (400 miles) south of the capital Bangkok.
Their bodies were found inside their living quarters on the plantation. But police declined to speculate on a motive or suspect in the killings, according to AFP.
About 540,000 migrant workers are registered to work in Thailand, most of them from Myanmar, according to the Labour Ministry.
But as many as one million undocumented workers are believed to be in the kingdom, where they often face exploitation by their employers, according to rights groups.
