'Say you weren't raped in jail and we'll let you live', pregnant British woman told in Laos prison

 

Anonymous wrote:

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i guess this kind of drug was smuggling form thailand, then she is one of the smuggling ring to transfer to the west.  ask a simple question, how she fund all of her travel over the globe, when her mother is a student and on welfare. she herself is only 20 yrs old.  i work my a$$ off and still can not effort to come home once.

my2cent

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Excuse me, but before you blah, blah, any further, I think you should try to understand the whole story.  If I am not wrong, this woman was apprehended as she was about to leave Laos for BangC0ck Thailand for the possession of heroin. There had to be some sort of connection for her access to drugs in Laos. Though I am Laotian myself but I won’t know where or how to get them and for this lady to obtain a vast amount of heroines, she must for sure have known some lucrative distributor in Laos.

I also have a very hard time to fathom the mentality of some Laotian folks in here who want her to be executed.  They should at least wait until she is proven guilty by the court of law before issuing their own abjudication if they think that they are more knowledgeable in judicial process than the presiding judge in Laos.  As I said earlier, Laotian government might end up extraditing her to England where she would serve the rest of her time according to the British law. They would run a background check on her to see if this is her first offense or she had a similar conviction in the past then an appropriate sentencing guideline would apply accordingly. Only a third world savage and some fanatical Islamic worshipers wouldn’t cherish or value life. Buddhism, on the other hand, prohibits taking any living things especially a life of a human being according to its five precepts because Buddha strongly believes in life-after death and any reward or karma would be determined by the “Supreme Being” from above.

Though a drug offense maybe considered serious in Laos but it doesn’t warrant a liquidation of a human life by any means specifically by firing squad. Can you imagine yourself pointing a gun at her and simultaneously hearing her voice begging you for mercy? As bad as she may sound or look to you, but she does has a family who still loves her and stands by her in the hours of mentally fearful agony just as you would too if she is your very own daughter. Nothing can go wrong to show a little bit of sympathy and I truly believe Laotian governments or whoever in charge of this case do the right thing for the sake of a country, for the image and for the future of Laos, to which no one can deny that we are a very poor country and we still beg the world for all necessities. By agreeing to exonerate her or repatriate her to a country of her national origin, proves to the world that Laos has humanity in its heart and  importantly Lao is sensitive to the word’s concern. The international community should continue its effort to academically, economically assist Laos as well as in other areas.   

Foreigners should not falsely believe that they would have no access to justice and feel discourage to visit or invest in Laos. Nationalistic mentality of some Lao folks in this forum won’t change the fact that Laos is as of today, the least developed country in Southeast Asia and many people can’t live beyond 56 years of age. I won’t criticize Laotian government if they eventually hand her over to the British authority as I had expected it. Better yet, I would establish good relations with London and expose Laos to its ordinary citizens as much as possible within our own capacity so that the good image of Laos will change their negative perception if I were the Laotian ambassador.

Nevertheless, I am for capital punishment on a condemned criminal offense such as, rape, robbery that results in death of innocent victims.

BruceLaoMan

 

 

I would rather support the courth sentences her to be shooting by ak47 if she commit the crime than listening the news or somedia say, the human right is succck in Laos and the jail in Laos is like the hell, especially treat the foreigner. However "  who is the father of baby?"

Anonymous wrote:

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BLM  did usa have death penalty?

so if usa have death penalty   ,  what wrong with laos have  deatlh  penalty?

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It is not easy to prosecute a capital case in the United States of America.  Any district attorney can’t deny that.  It takes a whole lot of money and overwhelming evidence to prove a person is guilty of a capital crime in order to get a capital punishment and all the selected jurors must unanimously agree that the crime involve special circumstances. For instance, rape, kidnapping, or robbery that ends up in a death of an innocent victim or premeditated murder. There is no death penalty for financial crimes or drug offenses unless as I said, a special circumstance proves it otherwise. Life in prison without a possibility of parole is the most our district attorneys can impose.

There are 14 states in the U.S that banned the practice of capital punishment and many death-row inmates were exonerated due to the wrongful conviction partly to blame on the loophole of the justice system and thanks to the advent of our most technologically advanced DNA. Comparing Laos to Singapore is ludicrously useless. You should know Laos merely stands 5 feet tall whereas Singapore is a 10-foot Giant. The Laotian government knows it fully well but for whatever reason, some of you just don’t seem to get it. Flexibility is a key survival and a path to a greater success and Laos at the moment comprehends these. I don’t have any further logical reason to explain to you and I can only hope you guys think a little bit deeper.

Does the cost equal benefit? Which in this case, the government of Laos does not hesitate to recognize it and by signing an agreement with London to hand over Orobator, did actually corroborate my initial stance. I said it from the beginning that Laos is not in the position to act without political and economical assessment of loss.

BruceLaoMan