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Article: This Thai crime investigator is no friend to the 'big shots'.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)(Porntip Rojanansunan)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- October 26, 2009
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Byline: Tibor Krausz Correspondent
Pattani Province, Thailand -- A cotton earplug discarded near the scene of a bomb attack. A wooden club found where a Buddhist monk was hacked to death with a machete. Saliva on the flaps of an envelope containing a death threat to a village leader later assassinated.
Such are the clues Porntip Rojanansunan uncovers in search of traces of DNA, explosive residues, and other telltale clues.
Risking life and limb several days each week in Thailand's predominantly Muslim southernmost provinces, where a brutal insurgency rages, the forensic pathologist from Bangkok scours the scenes of daily shootings, bombings, ...