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 ...
Hold on for a tick: Islam is violent???!?
Lol, you are writing your life on the forum! I can remember how I loved Doug Flutie [sp?], now he is an announcer. How time flies!
With all that beer to choose from you should be in a grand mood by nightfall!!
Find the Nascar thread and follow it.
Nice music.
Thanks.
It is shocking.
The DUmmies say that the muzzies are a religion of peace...
not.
Nice picture.
I hope that Thailand can keep free of an Islamic take-over.
The muzzies put domes on Churches in Turkey after killing the Christians there.
Doug Flutie played years in the Canadian Football League
Three downs instead of four.
Different size football field.
Flutie is a small guy - but gutsy
Played well into the sunset.
I was not aware you are a football fan........
Chad Pennington of the Jets just came back from rehabbing a long time after serious surgery
He is flinging that pill - almost perfect in the 1st half in spite of his critics predictions
23 - NY Jets
16 - TN Titans
The only time I was a football fan was when my kids were in highschool, always had season tickets.
Son played, Daughters in cheerleading.
Doug Flutie was a cutie, that explains that!!
potlatch,
Nice job with those pictures.
Hopefully this will not happen ( at least not in my life time ).
It must not happen - in the lifetimes of our children, grandchildren and so on.
Tragicaly, the dimwhit Dems don't understand this.
Oh -
The ol' "cutie" scenario:
"Look at those tight pants!"
I won't comment on that, well maybe I will - I liked his face!!!
Islam is evil.
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