Southeast Asia trouble

Straits-Times Interactive ^ | MAY 29, 2004 | AFP

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Thailand dismisses call in Jakarta for jihad

BANGKOK - Hardline Muslims in Indonesia have threatened to wage holy war in defence of fellow Muslims in Thailand's south, but their threats have been dismissed by Bangkok which says the Indonesians are blind to the realities on the ground.

Two dozen members of the hardline Islamic Defenders' Front had gathered outside Thailand's embassy in Jakarta on Thursday to protest against what they viewed as the 'slaughter' of Muslims in Buddhist-majority Thailand. Advertisement

Rejecting their comments, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh said: 'These are people who live far away and they don't know what the reality was, so they believe the Thai government attacked and killed (Muslims), but the true fact is we were under attack.

'These are fellow Muslims who do not have information about the incident.'

Mr Chavalit is in charge of national security.

Violence in Thailand's south escalated dramatically on April 28 when 108 suspected Muslim rebels were killed as they mounted disastrous coordinated assaults on police stations and checkpoints.

The attacks culminated in the controversial storming of a historic mosque, resulting in the deaths of all 32 suspected militants hiding inside and triggering international concern.

Mr Chavalit was unmoved by the Islamic group's call for jihad if more Muslims were killed in the south.

'If we are concerned about every little thing, we will get indigestion,' he said.

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra also dismissed the Jakarta demonstration as 'really nothing', saying only that five members of the Islamic group had gone to the embassy. -- AFP

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holding fast

[Drammach]

Mr Chavalit was unmoved by the Islamic group's call for jihad if more Muslims were killed in the south.

'If we are concerned about every little thing, we will get indigestion,' he said.

A man of great wisdom.. and proper attitude..

[John Valentine]

"Two dozen members of the hardline Islamic Defenders' Front" out of maybe 20 million Muslims in the greater Jakarta area.

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