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Posted on 09/10/2006 9:44:20 AM PDT by george76
"When you pull the trigger, you've got to keep steady," the instructor sternly told the elementary school teachers.
"If your hand is shaking you can't shoot."
Teachers have one of the deadliest jobs in southern Thailand, with 44 killed by the bombs and bullets of an Islamic insurgency since 2004.
So the teachers are learning how to shoot back.
The Chulabhorn naval base... opened its heavily guarded gates on a recent Sunday to a training course for 100 public school teachers, mostly Buddhist men and women who say bringing a gun to school has become essential.
"You'd never see a teacher anywhere else in Thailand carrying a gun," said Sanguan Jintarat, head of the Teachers' Association that oversees the 15,000 teachers in the villages and towns of the restive south. "But, we need them, or we'll die."
That teachers -- not to mention Buddhist monks, bank tellers and motorcycle mechanics -- have become targets in the insurgency illustrates how badly law and order has degenerated in southern Thailand since the violence flared in January 2004.
At first insurgents targeted mainly civil servants, soldiers and police officers. Attacks then spread to businesses that serve soldiers: restaurants, outdoor markets, garages.
And now come attacks that seem to have no rationale at all, such as the murder last month of an elephant trainer who was shot seven times by gunmen who had lined up with children to buy tickets for a show.
More than 1,700 people have been killed across Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat -- the only Muslim-majority provinces in this otherwise peaceful, tourist-friendly Buddhist country.
Among them was a teacher gunned down at his blackboard in July as his 4th graders watched in shock, and a Buddhist art teacher clubbed by a village mob in May until her skull shattered.
(Excerpt) Read more at kusa.com ...
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Teachers of young girls are getting butchered.
our illegal occupation of Thailand ?
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Islam (the religion of violins) alert - women and children most affected.
"... we never should have invaded Thailand. "
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Public school teachers learn to shoot during target practice at the Chulabhorn naval base in Narathiwat province, southern Thailand. the bombs and bullets of a simmering Islamic insurgency
"the murder last month of an elephant trainer who was shot seven times by gunmen who had lined up with children to buy tickets for a show."
Flying kites, singing a ditty, smelling flowers, enjoying the circus.
All punishable by death under the Religion Of Peace.
They need to round up a few of the Imams spewing this poison and use them for target practice with pork salted bullets.
This is a no brainer. Just go to all the death cult temples on Friday and round up all the purveyors of hate preaching there.
Nothing.
So much for that tired canard.
Thanks for the picture.
Ditto.
"More to the point, why are we letting them in? "
Lovely music!!
I was sick when they were destroying those ancient carvings. The Islamic mentality is back in the stone age, no reverence for anything but their barbaric killing.
My computer is running slow, may have to reboot - or cuss out my cable company!!
Music courtesy of Jimmy Buffet in Key West......
Down to just one TV
No NASCAR + Jets game at the same time I'm here on FR
Oh the pain!
I need a beer!
Hmmmmmmmmm
Only Beck's, Corona, and Guinness to pick from -
Whatta dilemma!!!!!!!
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