Remembering the Wat Promkunaram Massacre
by Danny Fisher
Over at Barbara’s Buddhism Blog, author Barbara O’Brien remembers the Wat Promkunaram massacre–a brutal multiple murder at a Thai temple near Phoenix, AZ, that claimed the lives of six Buddhist monks, a nun and two novices–seventeen years on. The mass murder remains the largest in Arizona’s history. In an anniversary twist, a federal appeals court just threw out the confession of the man convicted of the killings, ruling that it was coerced.
