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| Four dead in southern Thai violence |
| 2007-05-20 |
| Militants shot dead a construction worker and set his body ablaze in another atrocity in the troubled South on Sunday. They also killed two men, a teenager, and detonated two bombs that wounded 11 people, police said. The dead man was killed as he worked on a highway in Pattani, one of three southern provinces beset by three years of separatist insurgency in which more than 2,100 people have been killed. Officers said the man's excavator was also set alight. A few hours later in the nearby province of Narathiwat, two remote-controlled bombs detonated 15 minutes apart near a market, wounding seven police and defence volunteers and four civilians, police said. Some of victims were caught as they rushed to the scene of the first blast caused when the small home-made bomb exploded. A Buddhist motorcycle mechanic and a Muslim villager were killed in separate drive-by shootings late Saturday in Yala province. On Sunday morning in the same province, gunmen opened fire on a Buddhist woman and her 16-year-old son. The teenager died later in hospital, while his 51-year-old mother was in a serious condition. Also Sunday, police said they were investigating whether an Indonesian man arrested for firearms possession in Yala was in the region to train rebels, who are battling for a separate state in southern Thailand. Sulaiman Abdulganee, 42, was arrested on Friday in a rented house in Yala province with his Thai Muslim wife. Both were charged with drug trafficking, while Abdulganee was also charged with illegally owning a gun, police said. Two senior military officers said last week that extremists from Indonesia and Cambodia were training insurgents in the Muslim-majority south, where more than 2,200 people have been killed in the unrest since January 2004. However, the army has yet to produce any evidence supporting the allegations that foreign fighters are aiding the rebels. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 Until the world population realizes admitting any Muslims into your society means subversion of your society by nurder and terrorism, no real progress can be made. If the realization could come about, Muslims could be either eliminated or quarantined in the desert and allowed to waste away. If civilization wants to survive and prosper, they'd better wise up rapidly because the grains of sand are draining through the hourglass with each breath they take. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-05-20 11:35 |
| #1 Whither goes the Muzzie, there comes the fanatic to open the door for death. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-05-20 11:21 |