Posted on 11/09/2005 7:48:11 PM PST by Wiz
Bangkok, 9 Nov. (AKI) - As the violence in Thailand's hree southernmost provinces shows no sign of abating, prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has announced an impending “D-Day” against the rebels. In the last 24 hours, Muslim insurgents have attacked Yala Provincial Hall and a series of other minor targets, while Bangkok has announced the killing of Hasueming Jarong, a leading member of the Pattani Mujahideen, one of the groups fighting for an independent Islamic state comprising Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said that the government has prepared a large scale offensive against the rebels to be launched in the next couple of days. “We will launch a D-Day to solve problems in the southernmost provinces. All measures have already been planned. We will no longer be on the defensive,'' he said on Tuesday night.
A source said the so-called D-Day operation in the 'Deep South', as the three provinces are collectively known, would be launched after 9 November. He did not elaborate.
However, to residents of the three mostly Muslim provinces - where the scale of violence and the boldness of the attacks have increased steadily since the first outbreak on January 4, 2004 - the prime minister's words may provide little comfort.
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How strange it is that war has raged all around them for so long, and yet here they are, facing attack by these Muzzie GOONS...
looks like the 'boys' overplayed their cards
about everywhere on the planet!
Good news!
Thailand has "Youths" trouble too?
Send them to allah(satan)!!!
Islam's bloody borders.
Everywhere there are Moslems, there's trouble.
Won't be the first time these guys have had to switch religions.
Thailand was "colonized" by Chinese 1600 years ago. Those same Chinese are still pretty much in charge.
Read the other headlines.. they are being told to shove off in France (sort of-Sarkovsky), By Costello in Australia, and don't think for one minute the Jordanians are not completely pissed off at the Saudi funding right about now!
THIS is good news!
I was wondering how long it would take them to start getting serious.
Mark.
Thai Ping
That I will agree is a good news, but I am wondering if their is something bigger in the works.
The Thai are very, very good. Just ask what's left of the former communist insurgents there! :)
If the Thais are really mad, well, I wouldn't want to be a Mohammaden out there.
I have to say that the Chinese in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand do so well because they work hard and focus on business. The natives are less enthusiastic and rely on preferential laws, affirmative action and sheer numbers to get ahead.
I believe it was King Rama who freed the slaves, though. In his day (about 150 years ago) 99% of the people in Thailand were slaves.
There are the "Overseas Chinese" who are a phenomenon with its origins in the founding of a Chinese navy port at Penang Island in the early 1400s by Admiral Zheng He (known to the West as Sinbad the Sailer Man).
This guy may well have discovered and mapped the Americas.
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