Posted on 06/04/2007 10:13:55 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
A MAN armed with a 21-inch long knife killed ten people, including seven children, and wounded 14 others in a drunken rampage early today in a central Philippine province, police said.
After the attacks the man surrendered to a villager, who turned him over to the authorities.
Just horrible......there are no words.
He’d be eligible for amnesty.
He wasn’t torn apart? How odd.
But wait.
It doesn't involve guns.
It's not in America.
No chance of Discovery or National Geographic Channel.
NO chance of Michael Moore.
Let's move on.
Mass shootings elsewhere in the world are covered by the mass media. But this? Nope.
Amnesty.
Was he really drunk or was it Sudden Jihad Syndrome?
It’s clearly time to declare war on the illegal 21 inch knife trade.
I remember something like this happening quite a few years ago.
A little long for a "knife." Sword? A Moro Barong?
A bolo - AKA a native machete. They are usually shorter than that, but I have seen some that long. They are ubiquitous all over the country, and are used where one would use a wide variety of other tools in the US. You use them to chop wood, cut brush and grass, do carpentry, you name it.
He went “amok”, which is a manic state that Filipinos occasionally get into, and is not unique to Muslims. A knife/bolo rampage in a marketplace is the traditional expression of “amok”. It is a case of impersonal rage, and there usually isn’t an individual target.
A relative of mine was killed by an “amok” in a Southern Luzon province.
There was, a couple of decades ago, an amazing series of pictures in the Manila “Bulletin” (I think) where a photographer caught the progress of an amoks rampage, where he attacked two policemen in a marketplace. One policeman was shooting at the amok, who seemed to shrug off the bullets while he went for the other, who was struggling to get his revolver out. The amok got him before he could free his gun.
**One policeman was shooting at the amok, who seemed to shrug off the bullets **
Juramentados?
Hence, the phrase ‘run amok’?
Talk about a mean drunk!
“Juramentado” is the common Spanish term, in reference to the same phenomenon of “Amok”, that being the term in native languages. Both terms are common in the Philippines.
This was used to describe that aspect of Moro (Philippine Muslims) behavior, but its certainly not exclusive to the Moros.
Precisely.
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