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Articles by Bhupendra Veera
Faces of Assassination
On the evening of 11 February 2015, the life of 61-year-old Chai Boonthonglek came to an abrupt and violent end. Two men, dressed as construction workers and wearing black masks had arrived at the door of Chai’s small shop in the farming community of Klong Sai Pattana in Surat Thani province, southern Thailand, claiming to want to buy beer. One of the men then pulled out a .357 pistol and shot Chai six times in the head and torso, in front of his daughter and six-month-old grandson.
Faces of Assassination
On 26 September 2015, a 52-year-old farmer became the first environmental activist to be murdered in the Indonesian province of East Java. Salim, often known by the nickname Kancil, was a vocal critic against sand mining in the village of Selok Awar-Awar, Lumajang regency, where he lived. Salim was beaten in the village by a mob carrying sharp weapons, stones and logs. He was then tied with a rope and dragged for 2 kilometres to the village’s meeting hall, where he was further beaten and tortured.
Sandeep Sharma - Faces of Assassination
On 24 March 2018 at 8.55 a.m., security cameras picked up a chilling, almost Bollywoodesque scene playing out on the near-empty streets of Bhind, a small town in Madhya Pradesh, central India. In the blue-tinged footage, a huge dump truck can be seen taking a wide turn on an empty street, swerving suddenly, and mowing down a passing motorcyclist. The victim – Sandeep Sharma, a local investigative TV journalist – was dead on the spot.
Muhammad Khan - Faces of Assassination
On the afternoon of 16 October 2018, a body was discovered in the Hattar industrial area in the Haripur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern Pakistan. Police identified the deceased as 30-year-old Muhammad Sohail Khan, a journalist with the local Urdu newspaper Kay-2.
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