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| Southeast Asia |
| Bullet-ridden Buddhists |
| 2006-03-08 |
| Pattani — Fear and chaos gripped Thailand's restive south Monday as some 30 Superintendent of Yaring district, Pol Colonel Suthon Disyabutr, said 50 police officers and two fire trucks were mobilised to Che Orh village, a small Buddhist community, where gunmen shot dead three villagers. The body of Sa-ngeam Kaeowprasert, 70, one of the three victims, was found riddled with bullets and burnt beyond recognisable in his house that had been totalled by the fire early Monday morning. His wife, Thanom, appeared to have escaped the burning house but did not survived the gunshot wounds. The body of fellow villager, Somphit Putrarat, 35, was riddled with machine gun bullets. Authorities said his wife and four-year-old child were weeping next to his body in the yard. Sunthon blamed The attack on the village community appeared to have marked a shift in strategy, from point-blank assassination to attacking soft target belonging to Buddhist community, Sunthon said. In two more separate incidents, Meanwhile, in Nong Chik district's Tu Yong village, an elementary public school was torched but damages was minimum as residents quickly put out the fire. Meanwhile, in nearby Narathiwat, Deputy Gov. Wichit Chartpaisit and provincial commissioner, Pol Lt. General Yongyuth Charoenwanit, and deputy commander of the Army's Task Force 3, Colonel Somphol Pankul, paraded 31 The Nation |
| Posted by:DepotGuy |
| #1 Expell all the muslims into the country Malaysia where they can "live in peace" and seal the border. Do it and be done with it. Shoot anyone that attempts to come back across the sealed border. |
| Posted by: SPoD 2006-03-08 15:21 |