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| Southeast Asia |
| Angry non-Muslims parade remains of Buddhist woman |
| 2007-04-12 |
| Around 200 people paraded the charred remains of a Buddhist woman through the streets of Yala town Wednesday, April 11, to protest the unending violence in ThailandÂ’s restive Muslim-majority south. The 26-year-old woman was shot Monday and her body then burned beyond recognition in an attack blamed on Islamic militants who have fought the government for three years in this region on the Malaysian border. The villagers wrapped her body in a white cloth and placed it at the staircase leading into a government building where General Sonthi BoonÂyaratglin, a Muslim who heads the ruling military junta, was meeting with local leaders. Angry residents of the murdered womanÂ’s village said they wanted to show Sonthi how gruesome the attacks have become and to demand protection for the Buddhist minority in the province, one of three along the border hit by the unrest. “Eight Buddhists have been killed and burned like this on the same road. All the victims were from our village,” one of the victimÂ’s relatives told reporters. A 19-year-old Buddhist man was also killed Wednesday in Yala in a drive-by shooting that also left his 47-year-old mother seriously wounded. Ten other people were killed on Monday alone, including four Muslims shot dead while returning from the burial of a bombing victim. In nearby Pattani province, five officials from the Revenue Department were wounded Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their van, police said. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #5 Sonthi and his supporters blamed Thaksin's heavy-handedness but despite his offered appeasements things are much worse now than before. Don't think he has a clue what to do now. Certainly only either nothing or even more appeasements. |
| Posted by: Duh! 2007-04-12 16:03 |
| #4 Appointing a Muslim to suppress Muslim hostilities. Yeah sure, we all know that's gonna work just fine. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-12 14:12 |
| #3 To be a bit more credible, Sonthi should be warning that any muslim villagers knowingly giving succour and comfort to these killers in their midst will be regarded as abbetors and suspects relocated to security hamlets as the British did in the Emergency in Malaya. WTF isn't he doing that? Mainly because he's a mozzie himself. It figures. |
| Posted by: Duh! 2007-04-12 09:30 |
| #2 The villagers wrapped her body in a white cloth and placed it at the staircase leading into a government building where General Sonthi BoonÂyaratglin Who's Muzzi himself. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-04-12 07:56 |
| #1 It may have n=been said here often times but when the inevitable backlash occurs the BBC and other left-leaning media outlets will be all over it portraying muslim victimhood etc... If I was buddhist in this part of the world I would have taken to arms - heck I'm not that far from it and things aren't nearly so bad here. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2007-04-12 06:30 |