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Allah is on a roll! The Buddhist man under this sheet is just |
Posted on 02/25/2007 2:04:06 PM PST by Mount Athos
Some are already calling it war, a brutal Muslim separatist insurgency in southern Thailand that has taken as many as 2,000 lives in three years, with almost- daily bombings, drive-by shootings, arson and beheadings.
It is a conflict the government admits it is losing. [...]
A new policy of conciliation pursued by Thailand's junta since it took power in a coup five months ago has been met by increased violence, including a barrage of 28 coordinated bombings in the south that killed or injured about 60 people a week ago. [...]
"Buddhist monks have been hacked to death, clubbed to death, bombed and burned to death," said Sunai Phasuk, a political analyst with the Human Rights Watch monitoring group. "This has never happened before. This is a new aspect of violence in the south."
Some remote areas in the south have become, in effect, no-go zones for the police or military, according to Francesca Lawe-Davies, an analyst with the International Crisis Group.
"It appears in the last year or so that insurgent groups are actually starting to control territory in a more conventional sense," she said.
Some Buddhist and Muslim villages have begun sealing themselves off from one another. People say that old friendships and patterns of cooperation are being undermined by mistrust.
In a report published last month, Zachary Abuza, the author of "Militant Islam in Southeast Asia," said that entire Buddhist communities have fled in a "de facto ethnic cleansing."
Human Rights Watch counted more than 6,000 violent incidents over the past three years. It said that more than 60 teachers and 10 students had been killed and 110 schools — the most visible signs of central government authority in many places — had been set ablaze.
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It's a quagmire.
we never should have invaded southern Thailand ...
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Sounds like Thailand? is turning into France.
Ping.
Hey, no stories except for the poor, opressed muslims fighting and murdering in their occupied lands. It might be distracting to all those human rights groups. /s
It is stories like this that make me feel like iraq WAS the right thing to do, but we were too late.
How long, will it take for this world to wake up to the fact that it is IMPOSSIBLE to reconcile differences with a pack of savages whose first and last purpose in existing is to kill anyone not like them. How many times have we seen appeasement met with increased savagery? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result each time. I must conclude, therefore that the world has gone insane.
I think the government is on the right track... well should I say on a much better track than it would have been under the previous government. The problems right now have nothing to do with 'appeasement and apology' but with middle ranking career officers who are only looking at how they can get themselves promoted instead of doing their jobs. Thailand, being what it is, is just not in a position to do it by themselves without serious purges of middle ranking officers which is not going to happen. Unfortunately, at this point I think it is going to take a western power putting pressure on Thailand to win this thing.
It has.
Thailand needs to get medieval on these muslim ba$tards. If they don't, they are in for a horrific outcome.
ping
"When we are in a restaurant, if we see a soldier or policeman nearby we hurry to leave," Chidchanok said. "In the shops near the university, if a soldier or policeman comes to buy something, the owner says, 'Quickly just buy something and leave.'"
are laughable. I am close friends with guys serving in the South and their experiences are the exact opposite.
The west has become too PC and multiculturists, to accept what is happening and doing something about it, they have become muslim jihadist butt kissers. When some of their family members have their heads chopped or sawed off they may come to the senses, but then it will be too late.
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How many deaths at the hands of Muslim extremists will it take to finally get the world united in an all out effort to end the slaughter? I think we are looking at world wide genocide.
Its Israel and the Jews fault /sarc.
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