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A Thai court handed out death sentences on Thursday (June 11) to two ethnic Uyghur men from the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang for a 2015 bombing in the centre of Bangkok that killed 20 people, including five Malaysians.

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00:00The South Bangkok Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced Adam Karadag and Yousufu Miraily
00:07to death over the Erewhon Shrine bombing in 2015. The court said it found no grounds for
00:13mitigation in the charge of jointly committing premeditated murder in the incident that happened
00:18at the shrine in Rachaprasong District on August 17 in 2015. The incident killed 20 people,
00:26including five Malaysians and victims from Thailand, China, Indonesia and Singapore and wounded 120 others.
00:56There are a lot of concerns that the fire is still not delayed from the scene, so we have to
00:59get from the cemetery. For instance, the cemetery one has to be dealt with,
01:05we are in the situation of the cemetery, about the cemetery's name, so we have to be dealt with.
01:12So we are in the situation of the cemetery and we will try to come up with the cemetery.
01:17We do not have to be dealt with the cemetery, so we have to keep the cemetery from the cemetery.
01:21that. Investigators found an improvised explosive device made with TNT and assembled using a pipe
01:28component, and it was hidden inside a backpack before being placed under a bench in the shrine
01:33compound. Authorities then arrested Adam Karadag, also known as Bilal Mohamed, who placed the
01:40backpack in the area, and Yusufu Miraily for assembling the device, procuring equipment,
01:45and delivering the device to Karadag. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing,
01:51but security experts say it was an act of retaliation against the forced deportation
01:56of more than 100 Uyghurs from Thailand prior to the incident. Uyghurs, who are mostly Muslims,
02:03say they flee China's northwestern Xinjiang region due to persecution,
02:07a claim that the Chinese government rejected.
02:14The trial lasted almost 11 years, involving testimony from more than 400
02:20prosecution witnesses, and more than 45 defense witnesses.
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