Thailand slams Muslim call for self-government-(think France is next)

ANGKOK: Thailand on Wednesday condemned a statement by a group of Thai Muslim calling for self-government in the restive south where more than 1,000 people have been killed in the past 22 months.

The Patani United Liberation Organization (PULO) said on Tuesday the conflict could degenerate into a war between religions in mainly Buddhist Thailand unless Bangkok grants the region the right to self-government.

The government said the group only wanted to incite religious conflict among people in the three mainly Muslim provinces along the Malaysia border.

"The statement by PULO runs counter to the efforts to promote peace and stability through reconciliation as desired by the people in the three southern provinces of Thailand," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

"The entire substance of the statement does not in any way reflect the interests and aspirations of the people in the three southern provinces."

PULO was active in the 1970s, but splintered and largely disintegrated by the mid-1990s. Some of its remaining leaders live in exile in Europe.

The organisation’s role in the current conflict remains unclear since no group has ever taken responsibility for any specific attack.

Analysts and authorities blame the almost daily attacks in the region on separatists, organised criminals and local corruption.

now how cool is this? im so glad to see the countries like thailand, who love the multiculteral nonsense are now reaping what they have sown. btw,the govt can say no, but that wont stop the rop, this genie is out of the bottle and look for a new seat soon at the un called the islamic republic of south allah/thailand style. just too dam funny.
the rop knows that buddhists are easy pickings, ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Thailand Imposes Martial Law in Two Districts in the Insurgency-Wracked South

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBVGNNTKFE.html

Published: Nov 3, 2005

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's government imposed martial law on Thursday in two Muslim-dominated districts of its insurgency-wracked south, a day after Islamic separatists staged a new show of strength with bombings that blacked out a provincial capital.

Gen. Khwanchart Klaharn, the top security official for the south, announced that martial law was being declared in two districts of Songkhla province, adjacent to the country's three southernmost Muslim-dominated provinces where the insurgency has flared, killing more than 1,100 people since January last year.

The latest announcement comes four months after authorities declared a state of emergency in Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani provinces. Parts of the provinces had been under martial law for years, as the area, on the border with Malaysia, has always been considered a sensitive one.

Insurgents staged several attacks in all three provinces Wednesday night, most notably in the provincial capital of Narathiwat, where several bombings knocked out electricity to most of the city.

Meanwhile, police announced Thursday they had recovered the severed head of a man believed to be a Buddhist monk.

No one took responsibility for the attacks, but police said they were probably linked to continuing violence in southern Thailand.

On Wednesday, a dozen bombs were planted throughout Narathiwat - the capital of the province of the same name - but security forces defused seven of them, said Col. Somkuan Saengpatraneth, spokesman for the regional army headquarters.

Somkuan said Thursday that police found the body of one of the bombers, but ruled out a suicide attack - saying it appeared that one bomb exploded prematurely. Three people were injured in the bombings and electricity was knocked out in the city.

More than 1,100 people have died since a once-dormant Islamic separatist movement re-emerged in January 2004 in the three southern provinces, the only ones with Muslim majorities in predominantly Buddhist Thailand.

Up to 10 percent of Thailand's 65 million people are Muslims. Most live in the three southernmost provinces, where they have long complained of second-class treatment.

AP-ES-11-03-05 0412EST

"now how cool is this? im so glad to see the countries like thailand, who love the multiculteral nonsense are now reaping what they have sown."

Thai's are fiercely proud people. Thailand has never been colonized. Look what "toxin" did about drug dealers in the capital. He had a shoot on sight policy (whacked a few thousand of them in a couple of weeks) that was working splendid until he knuckled under to international pressures.
I think Thailand is at the breaking point now with the infection called Islam.

Up to 10 percent of Thailand's 65 million people are Muslims. Most live in the three southernmost provinces, where they have long complained of second-class treatment.

Muslim liars. They are too lazy and backward to be as economically successful as the non-Muslims. Even Malaysia ex-PM, the swine Mahathir, recognized and criticized his fellow Bumiputras for being lazy and backward.

For real State imposed second class dhimmi treatment and abuses, simply look across the southern border at the Bumiputra stytem of Islamic religious apartheid that Malaysia imposes on its non-Muslim population at the hands of the UMNO swine and PAS koranimals.

If they want real sharia, get out of Thailand and move to Terengganu, or start heading for Makkah in time for the annual Islamic stampede of death.

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