Posted on 11/04/2005 10:04:18 PM PST by Fair Go
Muslim villager shot dead
05nov05
A MUSLIM villager has been shot dead by suspected Islamic insurgents in Thailand's restive south while walking home after evening prayers at a mosque, police said today.
Leeya Samukama, 27, was killed in an ambush late yesterday in Narthiwat, one of Thailand's violence-plagued southern provinces, they said. The suspected militants also shot and wounded Leeya's friend, Nasuha Ar-ware, 25, who was admitted to hospital, police said, adding they collected several shells from an AK47 assault rifle from the scene.
Violence in the three Muslim-majority provinces of mainly Buddhist Thailand has killed more than 1000 people since erupting in January 2004 and has proved to be one of the toughest challenges for Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
In his weekly radio address today, Thaksin said he would visit the restive southern provinces on tomorrow, vowing the Government would do its utmost to bring peace to the troubled region bordering Malaysia.
"The unrest in the south is causing me a lot of mental anguish, but I will do what I can. Tomorrow I will go to the south to attend a Buddhist ceremony," he said in the radio address.
Thaksin said Thai authorities had arrested more than 10 militants suspected of killing a Buddhist monk and his two teenage temple boys last month in the southern province of Pattani.
He also said the authorities arrested several people suspected of launching a wave of coordinated attacks on at least 43 security posts throughout the three provinces of Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala in late October.
More than 90 guns were stolen during the series of the raids.
On Thursday, the Thai military declared martial law in two districts in the southern province of Songkhla, located next to Pattani and Yala.
Several other districts along the Malaysian border are already under martial law. On top of that, the Government has imposed a state of emergency in the insurgency-plagued provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala.
Analysts and authorities blame the almost daily attacks in the region on Islamic separatists, organised criminals and local corruption.
Taksin : " Tomorrow I will go to the south to attend a Buddhist ceremony," he said in the radio address."
bait?
"A MUSLIM villager has been shot dead by suspected Islamic insurgents"
But who will the islamic "insurgent" blame it on?
This just might end the Muslim terrorism down there...eventually after both sides go at it for awhile. As it is right now, with each beheading of innocent Buddhists, the Muslims dance in their homes with the curtains drawn, if they even bother to close them. When THEIR innocents start getting mowed down - perhaps it might dawn on these complicit sacks of crap, that there are consequences for the murders they implicitly support.
ping
Gangs of muzzies are burning Paris, but this paper prints an article on the death of one in some remote neolithic village?
How far does spit travel in the wind? Point me towards this paper.
Don't worry they have carried stories on Paris. At the moment the problem extends around the globe.
The article was posted to show the problem is widespread. The world has a massive problem on its hands. Only recently I read that if Iran has nuclear weapons and the West attempts to take out such weapons, there are enough radical Islamic cells around the world to create utter chaos.
Why isn't the islamic butchery of teachers of young girls in Thailand being reported??? My local paper say nothing.
Some teachers have been killed. This has nothing to do with if they teach 'young girls' or not. The events in the south are widely reported in the Thai press... in both the English and Thai language papers. The following is a good meta site for articles related to the conflict:
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