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Thai PM Mulls Ban on Mekong River Massacre Movie

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Operation Mekong will open in Hong Kong movie theaters on Sept. 30 / BONA Film Group / Facebook

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RANGOON – Thailand’s Prime Minister said he will ban a Chinese-Hong Kong action film based on the murder of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River in 2011 by a Burmese drug lord from being screened in Thailand if it is found to “damage” the country.

“I have ordered authorities to check the content of Operation Mekong. If it is damaging, it will be banned,” Prime Minister Prayut Chan–ocha said on Tuesday, according to Bangkok Post.

“Operation Mekong”, directed by Dante Lam and due to open in movie theaters on Friday in Hong Kong, concerns the massacre in the Golden Triangle area of the river on Oct 5, 2011 when 13 Chinese crew members of two cargo ships were brutally killed by a Burmese drug-trafficking ring led by Naw Kham.

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