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| Muslim protesters score victory in southern Thailand |
| 2007-05-06 |
| More than 300 Muslims in Krong Pinang district, mostly women and children, Sunday ended their four-day series of demonstration to force release of 24 suspected militants with a victory as authorities agreed to free them and withdraw a unit of ranger from the area within a month. The Muslims agreed to end their demonstration as the authorities promised to release the 24 suspects within a month, return their confiscated motorbikes and withdraw a unit of rangers from Ban Rupae of Krong Pinang subdistrict. The demonstrators began to phase out at about 12.15 a.m. and helped to clean the road to allow resumption of traffic along the road which is a backbone of communication between Yala down town and southernmost border district of Betong. Meanwhile their Buddhist counterparts who organised a counter demonstration in Yala's Bannang Sta also agreed to end their road blockade after they were informed about the end of the Muslim protest. Chairman of Southern Islamic Culture Foundation Chamroon Denudom, also a former deputy commander of the Fourth Border Police Region said the government should make clear the procedure of detention under the emergency law which authorises officials to detain suspects without charge for 30 days. Also: Meanwhile, the body of a Muslim man was found floating in the Pattani river in Yala's Muang district yesterday morning. The cause of death had yet to be determined. Elsewhere, two schools in Krong Pinang sub-district were set alight early yesterday morning. In a separate incident, a man was shot dead along with his young daughter and son in his house in Than To district on Friday. In Bannang Sata district, an assistant to a village headman was gunned down yesterday on his way home. In Yala's Muang district, two border rangers and a two-year-old girl were killed in a roadside bomb attack near a local bridge in Yala municipality yesterday evening. The rangers were patrolling the area when the bomb was detonated by mobile phone. The aunt of the girl, who was driving the motorcycle they were riding, was seriously injured while another ranger sustained minor injuries. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 Good little dhimmies. Expect much more to follow. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2007-05-06 19:47 |
| #1 Pussies! |
| Posted by: USN, ret. 2007-05-06 15:20 |