Rajan sees himself as a Hindu patriot battling the renegade Muslim on behalf of the Indian government. Thai police managed to arrest three Pakistanis and a Thai but the four other Ibrahim hitmen are still on the loose. South Asians are hardly alone in preying on their own communities. Korean gangsters, using unregistered tour companies as fronts, have achieved an unsavory reputation for the kidnapping and ransom of both resident businessmen and tourists. Earlier this year police discovered the body of a 5-year old Korean boy stuffed in a suitcase, followed two days later by the headless corpse of a Korean women floating in a Bangkok canal.
Police believe the two killings are related.
Presumably someone had failed to pay up quick enough. Bangkok was similarly the killing ground of choice for Macau's 14K triad. Last year it was locked in a bitter turf war with the Shui Fong mob over casinos in Macau and Cambodia. The conflict spilled over into Thailand when 14K gunmen executed three Shui Fong members gangland-style on Bangkok's airport expressway. Since the harsh 1950s suppression of Chinese secret societies in Bangkok's Chinatown by military strongman Phibun Songkram, the triads have never enjoyed a power base in Thailand.