Cache of weapons found in Saraburi temple
A TEAM of military and police seized a large number of weapons from a temple in Saraburi province yesterday, before charging the abbot with criminal offences and getting him defrocked.
Former Phra Inta Sunyato told police the weapons had been stored at the temple by a group of red shirts, who did not return to take them back.
Found among the cache of weapons were documents relating to the red-shirt United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) movement, red scarves and propaganda, as well as shotguns, handguns, rifles, bullets and ammunition for assault rifles. There were also a military knives and uniforms in the pile.
A UDD membership issued to former abbot Inta Buakhamsri, 53, was also discovered. The former monk has also been charged with unauthorised use of an unregistered two-way radio. The radios were part of the stash found in the 30-rai compound of Wat Pa Seewalee temple in Muak Lek district.
