Killing the Bankers

Thailand | 1999

We explore why sugar farmers are taking murderous revenge on those they hold responsible for their collapsing livelihoods. Assassinated in Febuary 1999, Michael Wansley was a victim of increasing resentment over IMF meddling. Wansley was the foreigner banks sent in to investigate the books. But one day, his car was blasted with bullets by waiting assassins. His death was almost certainly the work…