Posted on 05/14/2007 1:52:17 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
From Monsters and Critics.com
Asia-Pacific News
Insurgents behead Thai-Buddhist, kill wife, injure daughter
By DPA
May 14, 2007, 7:51 GMT
Pattani, Thailand - Separatist insurgents on Monday shot dead a Thai-Buddhist couple working as fruit pickers in the majority-Muslim area of Bannang Sata, Yala provine and injured their three-year-old daughter, police said.
After gunning down Praphan Ponlarak, 36, and his wife Chaddakan, the assailants decapitated Praphan, making him the 29th victim to be beheaded in Thailand's troubled deep South since the region's separatist insurgency took a turn for the worse in January 2004. Their daughter was admitted to Bannang Sata hospital, 780 kilometres south of Bangkok, for treatment
Also on Monday, two Thai-Muslim labourers were gunned down in Kabang district, Yala, killing Luesong Hayiwale, 50, and seriously injuring Mahamu Samae, 41. On Sunday the bullet-riddled bodies of a Thai-Muslim couple working in a Bannang Sata rubber plantation were found by police.
'The insurgents are trying to sow hatred between Thai-Muslims and Thai-Buddhists and terrorize the area,' said Bannang Sata Police Sub-Lieutenant Than Serikan.
Despite the near daily killings in the region, Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont on Sunday reiterated his pledge to resolve the conflict through peaceful means during a visit to Yala with several cabinet ministers over the weekend.
Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani provinces comprise Thailand's deep South where more than 2,100 people have died in an escalating separatist struggle over the past three years.
Surayud, who was appointed prime minister on October 1 by a military junta that overthrew elected premier Thaksin Shinawatra on September 19, has adopted a conciliatory approach to the southern insurgency, in contrast to the tough tactics adopted by his predecessor.
Thus far the change of tactics have failed to end the near daily killings in the region, though Surayud has won international praise for adopting a conciliatory approach to the insurgency.
Thailand, a predominantly Buddhist country, has painted the southern conflict as a separatist insurgency, downplaying its religious element, a stance that has been accepted by much of the world's Islamic community.
The three provinces, bordering Malaysia, constituted an independent Islamic sultanate known as Pattani for hundreds of years before being conquered by Bangkok in 1786. The border provinces came under direct rule of the Thai bureaucracy in 1902.
A separatist struggle took off in the 1950s, fuelled by government efforts to suppress the local culture and religion in the region.
The long-simmering separatist struggle, after a two decade-long lull, took a turn for the worse when Muslim militants raided an army arms depot and stole more than 300 weapons in January 2004.
I can remember when Thailand and other free countries in SouthEast Asia were described as economic "Asian Tigers."
A sink into Islamism will doom this country...
Y’know...
And we all that it’s OUR FAULT, and that they had to die because of us EVIL AMERICANS. /sarcasm
Muslims will be Muslims.
The religion of pieces strikes again.
What did these monsters do to the daughter?
Especially if;
Thailand, a predominantly Buddhist country, has painted the southern conflict as a separatist insurgency, downplaying its religious element, a stance that has been accepted by much of the world's Islamic community.
And if;
Surayud has won international praise for adopting a conciliatory approach to the insurgency.
It does not pay to try to make friends with someone who has made it his solemn vow to see you and your country destroyed.
burkas on exotic dancers in bangkok would probably be bad for business..
There are no adequate words to describe them — rabid, vicious, foaming at the mouth, mass-murders, savages, barbarians — nothing really quite fits, except the word “Muslim” itself, which is why so many weenies, in so many capitals around the world (including our own), are afraid to use it.
They are “separatists”. Or they are “youths”. Or they are “disenfranchised”.
No. They are Muslims. And they do what Muslims do.
Did you hear that Moslem spokesmen internationally have condemned this outgageous murder?
You didn’t? Neither did I. I guess we must have missed it.
The Islamofacists want to establish an Islamic califate from Indonesia to Morocco from which it can then take over Europe, Africa and then the world. That has been their dream since 1919 when the Ottoman Empire fell, and is what they have been striving for since then. We are now experiencing the fruits of the labors.
The decline of SEATO was the beginning of dark times ...
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