The Lang Pacha ritual offers dignity to the nameless dead and calls attention to the need for better systems to identify ...

Flames crackle through piles of hundreds of human skulls and thick grey smoke pours into the Thai sky in a moment as ...

Flames crackle through piles of hundreds of human skulls and thick grey smoke pours into the Thai sky in a moment as spiritually significant as it is gruesome. The Lang Pacha ceremony is observed ...

Buddhists believe death marks the beginning of a new life, and making merit ensures a better rebirth. Flames crackle through piles of hundreds of human skulls and thick grey smoke pours into the ...

Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand - Flames crackle through piles of hundreds of human skulls and thick grey smoke pours into the Thai sky in a moment as spiritually significant as it is gruesome.

Nakhon Ratchasima (Thailand) (AFP) – Flames crackle through piles of hundreds of human skulls and thick grey smoke pours into the Thai sky in a moment as spiritually significant as it is gruesome.

The scene is incongruously cheerful: wearing blue surgical gloves, Pimjai Sornrach grinned broadly as she held a skull, declaring “it’s so good, it’s so good”, while her smiling friend ...