BANGKOK ? Give me your drug dealers, your money launderers, your felons on the lam yearning to breathe free. ...
Thailand has never advertised itself as a beacon for fugitives, but the world?s wretched refuse ? to tweak the noble words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty ? seem to show up here in droves.
Millions of tourists, most of them presumably without criminal records, travel to Thailand every year, drawn by the good food, lively night life and crystal waters. Fugitives come for the same reasons ? plus the prospect, for some, of outliving a statute of limitations.
Thailand has never advertised itself as a beacon for fugitives, but the world?s wretched refuse ? to tweak the noble words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty ? seem to show up here in droves.
Millions of tourists, most of them presumably without criminal records, travel to Thailand every year, drawn by the good food, lively night life and crystal waters. Fugitives come for the same reasons ? plus the prospect, for some, of outliving a statute of limitations.