Posted on 11/29/2007 1:31:25 AM PST by bshomoic
Suspected separatists crucify informant in Thailand's deep South
Nov 29, 2007, 3:55 GMT
Pattani, Thailand - In a new spate of atrocities in Thailand's troubled deep South, suspected separatists crucified a Thai-Muslim man for being an informant and beheaded two Thai-Buddhists, military sources said Thursday.
The body of Thai-Muslim Abdulloh Malohsae, an assistant headman in Rueso district, Narathiwat province, was found Wednesday nailed to a cross with his throat slashed, and a note pinned to his chest reading, 'This is how the running dogs of Thai officials come to an end.'
It was the first time separatists had crucified their victim, pounding nails through Abdulloh's hands, feet and forehead.
Also on Wednesday, assailants shot and beheaded Thai-Buddhists Sanguan Kaikuan, 61, and Annupong Pomvian, 21, in Sisakorn district of Narathiwat, 800 kilometres south of Bangkok.
Both men were travelling salesmen from north-east Thailand.
Army spokesman Colonel Akharra Thiprot said the brutal slayings were acts of revenge against the military for cracking down on insurgents in Narathiwat and restoring peace to the area.
'The situation in this area has improved so the insurgents are trying to turn back the positive developments,' said Akharra.
Thailand's so-called deep South, comprising the three border provinces Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala, has been in turmoil since January 2004 when Muslim militants raided an army arms depot in Narathiwat and stole more than 300 war weapons, unleashing a military crackdown on the long-simmering separatist movement.
The region has seen a surge in violence ever since, with more than 2,600 people falling victim to clashes, shooting, bombings and beheadings.
Nearly 80 per cent of the 2 million people living in the three southernmost provinces of predominantly Buddhist Thailand profess to be Muslims.
The three-province area, which borders Malaysia, was an independent Islamic sultanate known as Pattani for hundreds of years before being conquered by Bangkok in 1786. The area came under direct rule of the Thai bureaucracy in 1902.
A separatist struggle took off in the 1950s, fuelled by government efforts to suppress the local culture and religion
Why don't they just cut the muzzie provinces loose and be rid of them? Pattani would end up looking like all the other muslim countries, but the rest of Thailand would prosper.
For the same reason the US doesn't just cut and run in Iraq.
No it isn't. The US is not annexing Iraq. I don't know why Thailand even wants to own those provinces.
Thailand isn't 'annexing' Pattani either. It is part of Thailand. The fact is the vast majority of those in Yala, Pattani, Narithiwat, and Songkla are very good people and live in fear every day because of the terrorists in RKK. They want nothing more than for this to be finished so they can go about their normal lives.
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