Vanishing Thai activists nothing new

Enough is enough: Protesters holding banners and portraits of Wanchalearm outside the Embassy of Cambodia in Bangkok. — AFP

WANCHALERM Satsaksit is not the first activist living in exile in a neighbouring country to mysteriously disappear since the 2014 military coup, and he may not be the last. At least eight other Thai activists living overseas have met the same fate in recent years, some of them later turning up dead.

Wanchalerm, a 37-year-old Ubon Ratchathani native, was last seen being bundled into a vehicle by a group of men outside his apartment in Phnom Penh on June 4.