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| Buddhists targeted by jihadis in southernThailand |
| 2006-12-21 |
| Two men were killed on Wednesday in southern Thailand by suspected Muslim insurgents who apparently targeted the victims because they were Buddhist, police said. The first victim, identified as a 55-year-old rubber tapper, was shot three times while riding his motorcycle by a gunman on the back of another motorcycle, said police Major Suthas Noosrikong of Lammai police station in Yala province, where the attack occurred. Fifteen minutes later, a gunman on a motorcycle pulled up to the home of another Buddhist man in the same village. The attacker entered the home and fired three times, killing the man, aged 69. "We believe that Muslim insurgents are responsible for the death of the two Buddhist men today," Suthas said, saying police believed the killings were premeditated. "The attackers mean to scare Buddhists away from the area." But drive-by shootings and bombings occur almost daily in Thailand's three southernmost Muslim-majority provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, where more than 1,900 people have been killed in an Islamic insurgency that flared up in January 2004. Police, soldiers and others whom the insurgents view as collaborators with the government are targeted, along with Buddhists. Buddhist monks have been beheaded, Buddhist teachers slain, and leaflets are distributed around Buddhist villages warning that raising dogs and drinking alcohol are offensive to Muslims. In separate violence, suspected insurgents detonated three small bombs near homes in the Rangae district of Narathiwat Province, said police Major Chalerm Khongying. There were no reports of injuries. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #3 Drive the Muslims south into Malaysia and dig a deep, wide ditch. Line the northern bank with land mines and machine gun nests. That's the only thing that will stop it. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-12-21 15:26 |
| #2 The dalai lama called it a RoP too! So would the likes of Rowan Williams too, no doubt. |
| Posted by: Duh 2006-12-21 15:06 |
| #1 Oh the religion of peace and tolerance strikes again!!!! |
| Posted by: Ebbolump Glomotle9608 2006-12-21 04:51 |