Appeal for release

Buddhist monks from Myanmar hold a poster as they demonstrate outside the Thai embassy in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo on 28 December, as they appeal for the release of two compatriots sentenced to death for murdering a pair of British backpackers in Thailand. Two Myanmar men – Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun – were found guilty last week by a Thai court of killing David Miller, 24, and the rape and murder of Hannah Witheridge, 23, whose battered bodies were found on a beach in the southern Thai diving resort of Koh Tao in September last year. AFP PHOTO/Ishara S. KODIKARA