Thailand has blamed a band of Muslim separatists for an eruption of violence in the south. ’We found that they had aimed to seize control of Narathiwat within 1,000 days and raise their flag over the king’s Thaksin Rajaniwes palace,’ Defence Minister Thammarak Isarangkura Na Ayutthaya told Thai television. He said the group had been training young Thai Muslim recruits near Thailand’s rugged border with Malaysia. And he chided the local authorities for failing to verify intelligence which showed the movement had recruited youths to train in the jungle. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra also pointed to a Muslim insurgency but dismissed the movement as a band of ’crazy people’ whose leaders had slipped out of the country after coordinating recent attacks.
| Well, yeah. They're a bunch of "crazy people" who want to gnaw off a chunk of your country. Put them in a nut house or put them in jug or kill them — don't just roll your eyes and deny they're dangerous. |
|