Two Thai rubber workers' throats slashed

Bakersfield Californian ^ | 6/24/05 | AP - Bangkok

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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Attackers in southern Thailand slashed the necks of a couple, almost severing their heads in the latest killings attributed to Islamic separatists in the region, police said Friday.

The couple, Jad Suwanchatri, 52, and his wife, Serm, 51, had stopped their motorcycle to clear a log from a road in Yala province when assailants shot Jad and then cut the throats of the couple, police Lt. Somporn Ritthirat said Friday.

The couple's dog, which was in a sidecar, also was slashed to death, he said. The couple were rubber plantation workers, Buddhists and members of a local defense militia.

Drive-by shootings and bombings have claimed the lives of more than 880 people since January 2004 in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat provinces, which are dominated by Muslims in this overwhelmingly Buddhist country.

It was unclear exactly when the couple was killed, but police were notified early Friday of the attack, which apparently was a failed beheading, police said.

On Wednesday, insurgents decapitated a man at a teashop in one of the most brazen attacks since a wave of violence swept the provinces near Malaysia early last year. It was the fifth beheading in recent weeks and apparently the first carried out in daylight.

The first victim beheaded, also a rubber plantation worker, was slain in May 2004. The brutal killing caused widespread fear and prompted many workers to stop tapping rubber at night, when the work is usually done, and go out in the morning instead.

Also Friday, two unidentified gunmen shot and killed Kobkua Ransaewa, a school principal in Narathiwat province, while she was riding a motorcycle away from the school at lunchtime. The school temporarily closed after the incident.

The upsurge in violence has been attributed to the return of a decades-old secessionist movement believed to have faded after a government amnesty in the 1980s. Southern Thai Muslims have long complained of unfair treatment by the central government, mainly in jobs and education.

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Thai forensic officials examine the site where a bomb exploded at a parking area of Raman district office in Yala province, southern Thailand Thursday, June 23, 2005. A series of gruesome beheadings and other killings in southern Thailand are part of a campaign by Islamic separatists to scare off the minority Buddhist population and to show that they can still carry out attacks despite a government crackdown, officials said. More than 880 people have been killed over the past 17 months in attacks generally blamed on the revival of a long-dormant secessionist movement.

[apackof2]

Religion of "Peace" strikes again

PROTECT OUR BORDERS

[contemplator]

Simply grisly. The fact that they got the dog too is just icing on the cake.

[over3Owithabrain]

It's too bad most of the world, even many here in the US, are afraid to call Islam for what it is. If the world joined as one to stop this evil that is like a cancer in every land it spreads, perhaps it could be defeated quickly and many lives spared.

[Nathan Zachary]

But, they were only following their religious convictions, which are basically, Kill all the infidels! Wage war against all mankind until the last day, or until all submit to allah, the talking black rock and his pedophile messenger.

[ASA Vet]

Probably won't be long before the Thai get upset and eliminate the problem.
The Land of Smiles veneer is just that.

[zerosix]

Ahh, the Religion of Peace celebrating their committment to respect of others and fairly treating those of other faiths (CAIR - lie, lie, lie, lie.)

Where are the Muslims in America grabbing microphones and podiums and denouncing these inhumane acts by their fellow Muslims? Their silence is deafining . . . .

[DogBarkTree]

Nuke Mecca!

[taxesareforever]

Story might have been different if they had been carrying a pig instead of a dog.