Parents urge NHRC to probe inquiry into Lao girl's fatal fall
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Parents of the 18-year-old Laotian girl, who fell to her death from an eight-storey apartment in Bangkok on July 27, urged for the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to probe the police inquiry to ensure transparency and progress, as the girl's relat
The parents, accompanied by lawyer Suthat Ngernmeun and the Laotian Ambassador’s first secretary Ponsri Boonmeesai, submitted a petition to NHRC member Niran Pitakwatchara, also chairman of the NHRC’s sub-commission on civil and political rights.
Ponsri said that this case received attention from both countries and the relatives feared the death, initially ruled as accident, may be murder because of suspicious finger-shaped bruises on her arm and the alleged hasty procedure to get her cremated, but the investigation then stalled. So he brought the parents to call for justice with the NHRC.
The girl’s father said he and wife travelled to Thailand yesterday morning to call for help from the NHRC in monitoring the police investigation to ensure its progress in getting a real culprit punished and its clarification about doubts over her death.
Niran thanked the family for their trust in the NHRC, and said it would soon proceed on a fact-finding probe and invite related agencies to give information.
