PHUKET: The Thai Government yesterday lambasted foreign forensic teams for discriminating against non-Caucasian corpses when collecting samples for DNA analysis to facilitate the identification process.
Thai Interior Minister Dr Bhokin Bhalakula said the foreign forensic teams were picking and choosing Caucasian corpses first, adding that DNA samples of the 4,000 unidentified bodies should be taken in a systematic manner and not on a selective basis.
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