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  • Buddhists fear for their safety (South Thailand)

    05/10/2004 6:26:38 PM PDT · by JimSEA · 3 replies · 207+ views
    Bangkok Post ^ | Tuesday 11 May 2004 | WASSANA NANUAM
    Since the Krue Se Mosque siege, Chien Kullatham, a 77-year-old Buddhist, has become apprehensive about what may be in store for her and other members of the minority Thai-Buddhist community in the three southernmost provinces. They live in fear. Grandma Chien says that in all her 77 years she had never witnessed violence the likes of what occurred on April 28, when 106 young Muslim militants were killed, 32 of them in the famed mosque of Pattani. Since the beginning of this year, the escalating violence has greatly affected the daily lives of Buddhists in her village. ``We fear being...