BANGKOK -- Thailand's police have suffered another blow to their reputation from the release of a video that appears to show a man dying in custody with a plastic bag over his head. But the deadly interrogation method is not the work of just one rogue officer, according to retired senior members of a force that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha had pledged to reform after he staged the 2014 coup.
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The victim can be seen with a plastic bag over his head in this captured image from the leaked video that went viral last month, drawing 3.6 million views. (Source photos by Reuters and website)
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