Posted on 11/07/2004 8:28:38 PM PST by Mount Athos
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra headed to a Muslim-dominated part of southern Thailand on Sunday after promising to act aggressively against militants and illegal weapons they have used in deadly attacks there.
"I will have to launch a massive crackdown on weapons," Thaksin said on Saturday in his weekly radio address. "We will use both a soft approach and an iron fist to sweep out these people. Innocent people don't have to fear or worry."
The cause of Thaksin's visit was a ceremony at a Buddhist temple in the southern town of Tak Bai, where 78 detained Muslims suffocated or were crushed to death after being rounded up and piled onto trucks on Oct. 25.
Over the weekend, five Buddhists were shot and killed, the police said. Buddhists are estimated to make up 30 percent of the population in Thailand's three southernmost provinces near the border with Malaysia.
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Don't you just love these militant mooselimbs? They remind me of the "last act of defiance" cartoon, in which the mouse lifts a middle finger to the hawk that's about to make a meal of him. The Thais are slow to anger (they are the "smiling people" after all), but when you torque them off asking for quarter may not be an option.
Then I realized you were asking the wrong person..
Conshack was post #36.. I was post #37...
I suggest you re-post a reply to Conshack..
Correct. They are the only country in SE Asia that was never colonized.
islam is a death cult. Wipe them out, Thailand, as their aim is to wipe you out.
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