Heart failure was the official reason given when Mrs Sukanya Tanyakan was told her 18-year-old son died while training at Thailand's most elite military preparatory academy. But she sensed something was amiss.
"I knew in my heart what had happened," she said. "But it hurt too much to think about it."
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