JAKARTA, Oct 6 (IPS) - Hours before her execution, Thai national Namsong Sirilak had a rare chance to talk over the phone with her 12-year-old son in Bangkok. Sirilak's son, who had not seen her for the past 10 years, asked her when she was coming home. The 32-year-old mother replied that she did not know because she was ''still too busy''.

Few hours after the brief conversation, Sirilak was executed in the wee hours of Oct. 1 by a firing squad in Medan, North Sumatra for drug trafficking. Executed along with her was fellow Thai national Saelow Prasert, 62, who was also convicted of the same criminal offence.

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